Research Article

Stock Price Pattern Prediction Based on Complex Network and Machine Learning

Table 2

Kruskal–Wallis tests of the four network topological characteristic variables and next-day patterns of each stock index.

S&P500 stock indexNASDAQ stock indexDJIA stock index

Average strength43.0578340.203929.8488
(0.001)(0.001)(0.001)
Average shortest path length9.324128.15977.6535
(0.0253)(0.001)(0.0537)
Average degree centrality25.4071250.937413.0833
(0.001)(0.001)(0.0045)
Closeness centrality8.4532190.03520.6204
(0.0375)(0.001)(0.8917)

Note: figures in parentheses are p-values.