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In the past decades, the growing amount of network data has lead to many novel statistical models. In this paper we consider so called geometric networks. Typical examples are road networks or other infrastructure networks. But also the…
Although spatial prediction is widely used for urban and environmental monitoring, its accuracy is often unsatisfactory if only a small number of samples are available in the study area. The objective of this study was to improve the…
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Link prediction is an open problem in the complex network, which attracts much research interest currently. However, little attention has been paid to the relation between network structure and the performance of prediction methods. In…
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