Contributed Papers

Statistical methods for network data

Wed, Aug 6, 2:00 PM - 3:50 PM Room CC-202C Music City Center

Section on Statistical Learning and Data Science

7 Presentations

2:05 PM - 2:20 PM

Co-authors: Yichao Chen (University of Michigan), Yichao Chen (University of Michigan), Weijing Tang (Carnegie Mellon University), Ji Zhu (University of Michigan)

community detection signed networks stochastic block model

Embedding Network Autoregression for time series analysis and causal peer effect inference

2:20 PM - 2:35 PM

Co-authors: Subhadeep Paul (The Ohio State University), Jae Ho Chang (The Ohio State University)

Network peer effect Network time series Social influence Latent homophily Network embedding Social network

Minority Representation in Network Rankings: Methods for Estimation, Testing, and Fairness

2:35 PM - 2:50 PM

Co-authors: Hui Shen (McGill, Statistics), Peter MacDonald (University of Waterloo), Hui Shen (McGill, Statistics), Eric Kolaczyk (McGill University)

Contact networks Graphon model Noisy networks Stochastic block model Systematic bias

Network Goodness-of-Fit for the block-model family

2:50 PM - 3:05 PM

Co-authors: Jiashun Jin (Carnegie Mellon University), Tracy Ke (Harvard University), Jiajun Tang, Jingming Wang

Network analysis Goodness-of-Fit Block model Community detection Mixed membership Cycle-Count statistics

Network Inference for non-Gaussian Data

3:05 PM - 3:20 PM

Co-authors: Jiasong Duan (University of South Carolina), Jiasong Duan (University of South Carolina), Xianzheng Huang (University of South Carolina), Hongmei Zhang (University of Memphis)

Conditional independence Network inference Non-Gaussian data Nonparanormal transformation Parametric statistics Undirected networks

Spectral Embeddings of Correlation Networks

3:20 PM - 3:35 PM

Co-authors: Keith Levin (University of Wisconsin), Keith Levin (University of Wisconsin)

Networks Time series Embeddings

Statistical inference for core-periphery structure

3:35 PM - 3:50 PM

Co-authors: Eric Yanchenko (Akita International University), Eric Yanchenko (Akita International University), Srijan Sengupta (North Carolina State University), Diganta Mukherjee (Indian Statistical Institute, Kolkata)

Networks Core-periphery Random graph models