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These are written discussions of the paper "Sparse graphs using exchangeable random measures" by Fran\c{c}ois Caron and Emily B. Fox, contributed to the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series B.
This is a discussion on "Sparse graphs using exchangeable random measures" by Francois Caron and Emily B. Fox, published in Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Series B, 2017.
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