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***** To join INSNA, visit http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/ ***** On Wednesday 19 November 2003 05:06 am, David Lusseau wrote: > > The fact that the random networks are composed of many isolates is an > interesting fact in itself. If re-iterated many times, one could get the > likelihood that, given the number of nodes and links observed in the > real-world network, all nodes are connected in one giant cluster. If it is > unlikely (observed once or twice over 100-1000 re-iterations or whatever > level of significance one wants to choose) this tells us a lot about the > real-world network: it is most likely not based on a random attachment > mechanism. Or one can calculate such things exactly (to order 1/n, where n is the graph size). Formulas for such things can be found in this paper: http://arxiv.org/abs/cond-mat/0007235/ Mark Newman _____________________________________________________________________ SOCNET is a service of INSNA, the professional association for social network researchers (http://www.sfu.ca/~insna/). To unsubscribe, send an email message to [log in to unmask] containing the line UNSUBSCRIBE SOCNET in the body of the message.