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	सामुदायिक पहचान	घातीय यादृच्छिक ग्राफ मॉडल (ईआरजीएम / पी*)
क्षेत्र	नेटवर्क विश्लेषण	नेटवर्क विश्लेषण
परिवार	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
उद्भव वर्ष	2002–2019 (algorithm family)	1986 (foundational); modern ERGM framework 1996–2007
प्रवर्तक	Louvain: Blondel et al. (2008); Leiden: Traag et al. (2019); Girvan-Newman: Girvan & Newman (2002); Infomap: Rosvall & Bergstrom (2008)	Frank & Strauss (1986); extended by Wasserman & Pattison (1996) and Robins et al. (2007)
प्रकार	Graph-partitioning / clustering algorithm family	Probabilistic generative network model
मौलिक स्रोत	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.	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.
उपनाम	graph clustering, network partitioning, Topluluk Tespiti (Louvain, Girvan-Newman, Leiden)	ERGM, p-star model, p* model, Üstel Rastgele Graf Modeli (ERGM / p*)
संबंधित	5	6
सारांश	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 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.