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Thank you we are all excited to read it.

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On Dec 12, 2009, at 12:49 PM, "Roger Guimerà"  
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> Thank you, Barry, for writing about our work--this is flattering.
>
> Since the article has not appeared in PNAS yet (although it should  
> have)
> I am posting the link to a preprint, so that whatever discussion  
> ensues
> in the list is based on the science and not on the press release:
>
> http://amaral.chem-eng.northwestern.edu/publications/missing-and-spurious-interactions-and-reconstruction-complex-networks/
>
> Elisa: You are absolutely right--what we discuss (and, more  
> importantly,
> test) in the article is unbiased errors. We explicitly note this fact
> and, in the final discussion, briefly touch on how we think our  
> approach
> should be extended to correlated errors.
>
> Roger
>
> Bienenstock, Elisa wrote:
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>> Thank you!
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>> Very interesting, but I am confused about how to apply this type of  
>> approach when the data available is not only missing, but may be  
>> missing due to some systematic collection bias.
>>
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>> no theory needed
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>>
>> Facebook (and Systems Biologists) Take Note: Network Analysis  
>> Reveals True
>> Connections
>> Northwestern University News Center (IL) (12/07/09) Fellman, Megan
>>
>> Northwestern University researchers Roger Guimera and Marta Sales- 
>> Pardo
>> have developed a universal method that can correctly analyze a  
>> variety of
>> complex networks.  The researchers tested their method on a range  
>> of five
>> networks: a karate club, a social network of dolphins, the neural  
>> network
>> of a worm, the air transportation network of Eastern Europe, and the
>> metabolic network of Escherichia coli.  For each of the five  
>> networks, the
>> researchers introduced errors and applied an algorithm to the  
>> distorted
>> network.  Each time, the algorithm created a new network with the  
>> errors
>> separated out, and each new network construction was closer to the
>> original true network.  "The flexibility of our approach, along  
>> with its
>> generality and its performance, will make it applicable to many areas
>> where network data reliability is a source of concern," say Guimera  
>> and
>> Sales-Pardo. The central idea to the new method is that, even  
>> though every
>> network has unique characteristics, they all have nodes that can be  
>> put
>> into specific groups, with the nodes connecting to each other based  
>> on
>> group membership.  The method averages all possible groupings of  
>> the nodes
>> and gives each group a weight that reflects its explanatory power.
>> "There are many ways to map nodes in a network, not just one," says
>> Sales-Pardo.  "We consider all the possible ways.  By taking the  
>> sum of
>> them all, we can identify both missing and spurious connections."
>>
>> http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2009/12/networks.html
>>
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