Tag Archives: statistics

Fighting in the Karate Club: Stochastic block models

Reading Time: 5 minutesMany situations can be represented as networks to describe the social, physical and other structures where interactions between pairs of units are observed. Stochastic block models (SBMs) are a class of random graph models which are widely
studied and popular for statistical analysis of networks. In this blog, we discuss SBMs using the Karate club example.

Lead (probably not) in my water: zero-inflated models

Reading Time: 5 minutesIt’s interesting that there are some problems that the younger generation, if they even know it exists, assume have been dealt with completely. That’s what I thought about lead piping. Yet the University of Edinburgh and Scottish Water have ongoing research related to this.