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Hello everybody,

I use a formula from Newman/Girvan (Phys. Rev. E 69 (2004) 026113) to calculate Q=SUMi(eii-ai*ai) with ai=SUMj(eij) from the k x k symmetric matrix e. eii is the fraction of links within the cluster k and ai is the row (or column) sum. Very easy to implement in standard statistical packages. Here are my questions:

1. Why has matrix e to be symmetric?

2. Why can ai*ai be characterized as an appropriate null model?

(Both are questions from a reviewer ;-))

Best regards to the specialists

Per

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