Monitoring Attributed Social Networks Based on Count Data and Random Effects

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1 Department of industrial and Systems Engineering, Isfahan University of Technology, Isfahan, Iran

2 Department of Industrial Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Shahed University, Tehran, Iran

3 Department of Statistics, Faculty of Mathematical Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran

Abstract

This paper presents a novel approach for the statistical monitoring of online social networks where the edges represent the count of communications between ties at each time stamp. Since the available methods in the literature are limited to the assumption that the set of all interacting individuals is fixed during the monitoring horizon and their corresponding attributes do not change over time, the proposed method tackles these limitations due to the properties of the random effects concepts. Applying appropriate parameters estimation technique involved in a likelihood ratio testing (LRT) approach considering two different statistics, the longitudinal network data are monitored. The performance of the proposed method is verified using numerical examples including simulation studies as well as an illustrative example.

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Scientia Iranica

Articles in Press, Accepted Manuscript
Available Online from 13 July 2020

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