Research Article

Link Prediction Methods and Their Accuracy for Different Social Networks and Network Metrics

Table 6

Prediction methods accuracy result (AUC).

Datasets AUC
CN JI PA AA Cosin Sor HPI HDI LHN

Facebook 0.6688 0.6758 0.6803 0.6753 0.8369 0.6738 0.6715 0.6708 0.6694 0.6694
Flickr 0.89 0.8702 0.841 0.8922 0.8839 0.8812 0.865 0.844 0.8511 0.6944
UC Irvine 0.6625 0.6421 0.8412 0.6738 0.8048 0.6414 0.6359 0.6303 0.6427 0.6322
PWr 0.6815 0.6466 0.7924 0.6913 0.7979 0.651 0.6514 0.6422 0.6491 0.6382
Enron 0.8157 0.7937 0.9015 0.8196 0.9312 0.7921 0.7995 0.794 0.7977 0.7881
YouTube 0.8525 0.7957 0.9109 0.8571 0.9157 0.7938 0.7503 0.8017 0.7984 0.7587

Average 0.7618 0.7374 0.8279 0.7682 0.8617 0.7389 0.7289 0.7305 0.7374 0.6968

Variance 0.0105 0.0091 0.0071 0.0099 0.0032 0.0095 0.0084 0.0087 0.0083 0.0041

The accuracy of selected prediction methods measured by AUC. The average performance and the variance for each method are also listed.
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