학술논문
Beyond pairwise network similarity: exploring mediation and suppression between networks
Document Type
article
Source
Communications Physics, Vol 4, Iss 1, Pp 1-8 (2021)
Subject
Language
English
ISSN
2399-3650
Abstract
Mediation analysis aims to clarify the nature of the relationship between two variables, by elucidating the role of a third variable, which can allow or suppress the relationship, or being simply not involved in the process. The authors introduce this framework in the analysis of three-layered multiplex networks, assessing whether a link between two nodes in one layer affects the probability of having a link between the two same nodes in the other two layers, and present some applications to social and biological networks.