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backbone (version 2.1.0)

bicm: Bipartite Configuration Model

Description

bicm estimates cell probabilities under the bipartite configuration model

Usage

bicm(M, fitness = FALSE, tol = 1e-08, max_steps = 200, ...)

Value

a matrix of probabilities, or a list of fitnesses

Arguments

M

matrix: a binary matrix

fitness

boolean: FALSE returns a matrix of probabilities, TRUE returns a list of row and column fitnesses only

tol

numeric, tolerance of algorithm

max_steps

numeric, number of times to run loglikelihood_prime_bicm algorithm

...

optional arguments

Details

Given a binary matrix M, the Bipartite Configuration Model (BiCM; Saracco et. al. 2015) returns a valued matrix B in which Bij is the approximate probability that Mij = 1 in the space of all binary matrices with the same row and column marginals as M. The BiCM yields the closest approximations of the true probabilities compared to other estimation methods (Neal et al., 2021), and is used by sdsm() to extract the backbone of a bipartite projection using the stochastic degree sequence model.

Optionally (if fitness = TRUE), bicm() instead returns a list of row and column fitnesses, which is faster and requires less memory. Given the ith row's fitness Ri and the jth column's fitness Rj, the entry Bij in the matrix can be computed as Ri\*Rj/(1+(Ri\*Rj)).

Note: M cannot contain any rows or columns that contain all 0s or all 1s.

References

package: Neal, Z. P. (2022). backbone: An R Package to Extract Network Backbones. PLOS ONE, 17, e0269137. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1371/journal.pone.0269137")

bicm: Saracco, F., Di Clemente, R., Gabrielli, A., & Squartini, T. (2015). Randomizing bipartite networks: The case of the World Trade Web. Scientific Reports, 5, 10595. tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1038/srep10595")

Examples

Run this code
M <- matrix(c(0,0,1,0,1,0,1,0,1),3,3)  #A binary matrix
bicm(M)

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