The BA-model is a very simple stochastic algorithm for building a graph.
sample_pa(n, power = 1, m = NULL, out.dist = NULL, out.seq = NULL,
out.pref = FALSE, zero.appeal = 1, directed = TRUE,
algorithm = c("psumtree", "psumtree-multiple", "bag"), start.graph = NULL)pa(...)
Number of vertices.
The power of the preferential attachment, the default is one, ie. linear preferential attachment.
Numeric constant, the number of edges to add in each time step This
argument is only used if both out.dist
and out.seq
are omitted
or NULL.
Numeric vector, the distribution of the number of edges to
add in each time step. This argument is only used if the out.seq
argument is omitted or NULL.
Numeric vector giving the number of edges to add in each time step. Its first element is ignored as no edges are added in the first time step.
Logical, if true the total degree is used for calculating the citation probability, otherwise the in-degree is used.
The ‘attractiveness’ of the vertices with no adjacent edges. See details below.
Whether to create a directed graph.
The algorithm to use for the graph generation.
psumtree
uses a partial prefix-sum tree to generate the graph, this
algorithm can handle any power
and zero.appeal
values and
never generates multiple edges. psumtree-multiple
also uses a
partial prefix-sum tree, but the generation of multiple edges is allowed.
Before the 0.6 version igraph used this algorithm if power
was not
one, or zero.appeal
was not one. bag
is the algorithm that
was previously (before version 0.6) used if power
was one and
zero.appeal
was one as well. It works by putting the ids of the
vertices into a bag (mutliset, really), exactly as many times as their
(in-)degree, plus once more. Then the required number of cited vertices are
drawn from the bag, with replacement. This method might generate multiple
edges. It only works if power
and zero.appeal
are equal one.
NULL
or an igraph graph. If a graph, then the
supplied graph is used as a starting graph for the preferential attachment
algorithm. The graph should have at least one vertex. If a graph is supplied
here and the out.seq
argument is not NULL
, then it should
contain the out degrees of the new vertices only, not the ones in the
start.graph
.
Passed to sample_pa
.
A graph object.
This is a simple stochastic algorithm to generate a graph. It is a discrete time step model and in each time step a single vertex is added.
We start with a single vertex and no edges in the first time step. Then we
add one vertex in each time step and the new vertex initiates some edges to
old vertices. The probability that an old vertex is chosen is given by
$$P[i] \sim k_i^\alpha+a$$ where \(k_i\)
is the in-degree of vertex \(i\) in the current time step (more precisely
the number of adjacent edges of \(i\) which were not initiated by \(i\)
itself) and \(\alpha\) and \(a\) are parameters given by the
power
and zero.appeal
arguments.
The number of edges initiated in a time step is given by the m
,
out.dist
and out.seq
arguments. If out.seq
is given and
not NULL then it gives the number of edges to add in a vector, the first
element is ignored, the second is the number of edges to add in the second
time step and so on. If out.seq
is not given or null and
out.dist
is given and not NULL then it is used as a discrete
distribution to generate the number of edges in each time step. Its first
element is the probability that no edges will be added, the second is the
probability that one edge is added, etc. (out.dist
does not need to
sum up to one, it normalized automatically.) out.dist
should contain
non-negative numbers and at east one element should be positive.
If both out.seq
and out.dist
are omitted or NULL then m
will be used, it should be a positive integer constant and m
edges
will be added in each time step.
sample_pa
generates a directed graph by default, set
directed
to FALSE
to generate an undirected graph. Note that
even if an undirected graph is generated \(k_i\) denotes the number
of adjacent edges not initiated by the vertex itself and not the total (in-
+ out-) degree of the vertex, unless the out.pref
argument is set to
TRUE
.
Barabasi, A.-L. and Albert R. 1999. Emergence of scaling in random networks Science, 286 509--512.
# NOT RUN {
g <- sample_pa(10000)
degree_distribution(g)
# }
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