| Grant number: | 17/12074-0 |
| Support Opportunities: | Scholarships abroad - Research Internship - Doctorate |
| Start date: | November 27, 2017 |
| End date: | March 26, 2018 |
| Field of knowledge: | Physical Sciences and Mathematics - Computer Science - Computational Mathematics |
| Principal Investigator: | André Fujita |
| Grantee: | Suzana de Siqueira Santos |
| Supervisor: | Catherine Matias |
| Host Institution: | Instituto de Matemática e Estatística (IME). Universidade de São Paulo (USP). São Paulo , SP, Brazil |
| Institution abroad: | Université Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris 6), France |
| Associated to the scholarship: | 15/21162-4 - Identification of variables associated with the graph structure and applications in neuroscience, BP.DR |
Abstract Graph theory has applications in several domains. For example, in molecular biology graphs may represent protein-protein interaction networks or gene regulatory networks; and in neuroscience they are used to study brain functional networks. As real world networks usually present intrinsic fluctuations (for example, brain functional networks vary across time and individuals under the same condition), their representation by deterministic graphs is not adequate. An alternative is to assume that real world networks are generated by probabilistic processes and model them by using random graph models. The problem is that little is known about statistical methods for random graphs. Recently, statistical approaches have been proposed to (i) estimate the parameters of a random graph model (parameter estimation); and (ii) to test whether sets of graphs were generated by the same graph model and set of parameters. However, the asymptotic behavior of these methods are still unknown. Furthermore, the original approach for (ii) is based on bootstrap and thus presents a high computational cost. Therefore, here we propose to derive the asymptotic behavior of the parameter estimator in (i) and to create an analytic test for (ii).To achieve these goals, this candidate will work for four months under the supervision of Prof. Catherine Matias (Université Pierre et Marie Curie, France), who has over 10 years of experience on statistical methods for random graphs. | |
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