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	Exponentiell slumpmässig grafmodell (ERGM / p*)	Gemenskapsupptäckt	DBSCAN
Ämnesområde	Nätverksanalys	Nätverksanalys	Maskininlärning
Familj	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline	Machine learning
Ursprungsår	1986 (foundational); modern ERGM framework 1996–2007	2002–2019 (algorithm family)	1996
Upphovsperson	Frank & Strauss (1986); extended by Wasserman & Pattison (1996) and Robins et al. (2007)	Louvain: Blondel et al. (2008); Leiden: Traag et al. (2019); Girvan-Newman: Girvan & Newman (2002); Infomap: Rosvall & Bergstrom (2008)	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J. & Xu, X.
Typ	Probabilistic generative network model	Graph-partitioning / clustering algorithm family	Density-based clustering algorithm
Ursprungskälla	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.	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.	Ester, M., Kriegel, H.-P., Sander, J. & Xu, X. (1996). A Density-Based Algorithm for Discovering Clusters in Large Spatial Databases with Noise. Proceedings of the 2nd KDD, 226–231.
Alias	ERGM, p-star model, p* model, Üstel Rastgele Graf Modeli (ERGM / p*)	graph clustering, network partitioning, Topluluk Tespiti (Louvain, Girvan-Newman, Leiden)	DBSCAN Kümeleme, density-based clustering, density-based spatial clustering
Närliggande	6	5	3
Sammanfattning	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.	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?	DBSCAN is a density-based clustering algorithm, introduced by Ester, Kriegel, Sander and Xu in 1996, that groups together points lying in dense regions and flags points in sparse regions as noise. It is effective on noisy data and on clusters of irregular, non-spherical shapes.