# est.SBA: Estimate graphons based on Stochastic Blockmodel... In graphon: A Collection of Graphon Estimation Methods

## Description

est.SBA takes a 2-stage approach for estimating graphons based on exchangeable random graph models. First, it finds a Stochastic Blockmodel Approximation (SBA) of the graphon. Then, it uses clustering information to estimate graphon using a consistent histogram estimator.

## Usage

 1 est.SBA(A, delta = 0.5) 

## Arguments

 A either Case 1.an (n\times n) binary adjacency matrix, or Case 2.a vector containing multiple of (n\times n) binary adjacency matrices. delta a precision parameter larger than 0.

## Value

a named list containing

H

a (K\times K) matrix fo 3D histogram.

P

an (n\times n) corresponding probability matrix.

B

a length-K list where each element is a vector of nodes/indices for each cluster.

## References

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Airoldi2013graphon

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chan2014graphon

est.LG
  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 ## generate a graphon of type No.6 with 3 clusters W = gmodel.preset(3,id=6) ## create a probability matrix for 100 nodes graphW = gmodel.block(W,n=100) P = graphW$P ## draw 17 observations from a given probability matrix A = gmodel.P(P,rep=17) ## run SBA algorithm with different deltas (0.2,0.5,0.8) res2 = est.SBA(A,delta=0.2) res3 = est.SBA(A,delta=0.5) res4 = est.SBA(A,delta=0.8) ## compare true probability matrix and estimated ones par(mfrow=c(1,4)) image(P); title("original P") image(res2$P); title("SBA with delta=0.2") image(res3$P); title("SBA with delta=0.5") image(res4$P); title("SBA with delta=0.8")