Ng Tin Lok James, Murphy Thomas Brendan
School of Computer Science and Statistics, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
School of Mathematics and Statistics, University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
Stat Methods Appt. 2021;30(5):1365-1398. doi: 10.1007/s10260-021-00590-6. Epub 2021 Sep 13.
We propose a weighted stochastic block model (WSBM) which extends the stochastic block model to the important case in which edges are weighted. We address the parameter estimation of the WSBM by use of maximum likelihood and variational approaches, and establish the consistency of these estimators. The problem of choosing the number of classes in a WSBM is addressed. The proposed model is applied to simulated data and an illustrative data set.
我们提出了一种加权随机块模型(WSBM),它将随机块模型扩展到边具有权重的重要情形。我们通过使用最大似然法和变分法来处理WSBM的参数估计问题,并建立这些估计量的一致性。还讨论了在WSBM中选择类数的问题。所提出的模型被应用于模拟数据和一个示例数据集。