Methoden vergleichen

	Exponential Random Graph Model (ERGM / p*)	Algorithmen zur kausalen Entdeckung (PC, FCI, LiNGAM)	Community Detection	Graph Attention Network
Fachgebiet	Netzwerkanalyse	Kausale Inferenz	Netzwerkanalyse	Deep Learning
Familie	Process / pipeline	Regression model	Process / pipeline	Machine learning
Entstehungsjahr	1986 (foundational); modern ERGM framework 1996–2007	2000	2002–2019 (algorithm family)	2018
Urheber	Frank & Strauss (1986); extended by Wasserman & Pattison (1996) and Robins et al. (2007)	Spirtes, Glymour & Scheines (PC/FCI); Shimizu et al. (LiNGAM)	Louvain: Blondel et al. (2008); Leiden: Traag et al. (2019); Girvan-Newman: Girvan & Newman (2002); Infomap: Rosvall & Bergstrom (2008)	Veličković, P. et al.
Typ	Probabilistic generative network model	Causal structure learning	Graph-partitioning / clustering algorithm family	Graph neural network (attention-based)
Wegweisende Quelle	Robins, G., Pattison, P., Kalish, Y., & Lusher, D. (2007). An introduction to exponential random graph (p*) models for social networks. Social Networks, 29(2), 173-191.	Spirtes, P., Glymour, C., & Scheines, R. (2000). Causation, Prediction, and Search (2nd ed.). MIT Press. ISBN: 978-0262194402	Blondel, V.D., Guillaume, J.-L., Lambiotte, R. & Lefebvre, E. (2008). Fast Unfolding of Communities in Large Networks. Journal of Statistical Mechanics, 2008(10), P10008.	Veličković, P. et al. (2018). Graph Attention Networks. ICLR.
Aliasnamen	ERGM, p-star model, p* model, Üstel Rastgele Graf Modeli (ERGM / p*)	PC algorithm, FCI algorithm, LiNGAM, causal structure learning	graph clustering, network partitioning, Topluluk Tespiti (Louvain, Girvan-Newman, Leiden)	Graf Dikkat Ağı (GAT), GAT, graph attention network, attention-based graph neural network
Verwandt	6	5	5	4
Zusammenfassung	The Exponential Random Graph Model (ERGM), also known as the p* model, is a statistical framework for network analysis that models the probability of an observed network as a function of its local structural features — such as reciprocity, triangles, and degree distribution. Developed from the foundational work of Frank and Strauss (1986) and extended into the modern framework by Wasserman and Pattison (1996) and Robins et al. (2007), ERGM is the inferential standard for social network analysis, capable of testing whether observed network structures arise by chance or reflect genuine social processes.	Causal discovery is a family of algorithms that automatically learn a directed acyclic graph (DAG) describing causal structure directly from observational data. The constraint-based PC and FCI algorithms were developed by Spirtes, Glymour and Scheines (2000), while the LiNGAM model of Shimizu et al. (2006) exploits linear non-Gaussian structure to orient edges.	Community detection is a family of graph-partitioning algorithms that discover densely connected sub-groups — communities — within a network. First formalised through the modularity measure by Girvan and Newman (2002), the field advanced rapidly with the Louvain method (Blondel et al., 2008), the Leiden refinement (Traag et al., 2019), and the information-theoretic Infomap approach. All variants answer the same question: which nodes cluster together more tightly among themselves than with the rest of the network?	The Graph Attention Network (GAT), introduced by Veličković and colleagues in 2018, is a graph neural network variant that learns how much importance to assign to each neighbouring node through a self-attention mechanism. On heterogeneous neighbourhoods and relational classification it produces results superior to graph convolutional networks (GCN).