Statistics and Data Science Seminar Eric Kolaczyk (Boston University)
Why Aren’t Network Statistics Accompanied By Uncertainty Statements?
Abstract: Over 500K scientific articles have been published since 1999 with the word “network” in the title. And the vast majority of these report network summary statistics of one type or another. However, these numbers are rarely accompanied by any quantification of uncertainty. Yet any error inherent in the measurements underlying the construction of the…