The small-worldness index for the four networks and the four estimation methods pairwise correlations (red), lasso (green), ridge (orange), and shrinkage (blue), compared to the true value −...
Therefore, although Watts–Strogatz model is often used for constructing networks with small-world property, the resulting networks have different properties compared to real-world ones in terms of robustness in the small-worldness index against errors/attacks....