The Yule distribution and frailty--a note on spurious preferential attachment

Details The Yule distribution and frailty--a note on spurious preferential attachment The Yule distribution and frailty--a note on spurious preferential attachment

2007-06-15

arxiv.org/abs/0706.2244v1

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Physics and Society

28 pages; 5 figures

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Preferential attachment is a popular generative mechanism to explain the widespread observation of power law distributed networks. We introduce an alternative explanation for the phenomenon by allowing the link growth rates to vary across the nodes according to a randomized Poisson process. The distribution of rates, which reproduces the degree distribution of a preferential attachment process (Yule process) is derived analytically. We demonstrate with use of simulations that the degree distribution and growth rates in single time intervals are similar for the random process and the preferential attachment process. Structural differences are analyzed by examining the joint degree distribution and network coreness.

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