Summary: Community structures in
complex networks
Usha Nandini Raghavan
8/3/07
Distinctive Statistical Properties
· Most real-world networks share the
following properties
­ Small-world behavior (Path length scales as
ln(n))
­ Right skewed degree distribution (Power-law
distribution)
­ Local transitivity (Measure of triangles)
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P(k)
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Properties of real-world networks

Source: Albert, Réka - Departments of Biology & Physics, Pennsylvania State University

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