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Nature Physics 2, 75 - 76 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys228
Subject Category: Statistical physics, thermodynamics and nonlinear dynamics
Complex networks: Lies, damned lies and statistics
Luis A. Nunes Amaral1 and Roger Guimera1
- Luis A. Nunes Amaral and Roger Guimera are in the Department of Chemical and Biological Engineering and Northwestern Institute on Complex Systems, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois 60208, USA. e-mail: amaral@northwestern.edu; e-mail: rguimera@northwestern.edu
Abstract
Statistical physics can reveal the fabric of complex networks, for example, potential oligarchies formed by its best-connected members. But care has to be taken to avoid jumping to conclusions.
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