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Table 7 Choice of \(\alpha\) and corresponding estimated number of communities \({\hat{K}}_{\alpha }\) for different values of tolerance ratio \(\gamma\) across various choices of correlation threshold \(\tau\) for the USVA data

From: Selecting a significance level in sequential testing procedures for community detection

Correlation threshold (\(\tau\))

 

0.3

  

0.5

  

0.7

 

Tolerance ratio (\(\gamma\))

0.5

1

2

0.5

1

2

0.5

1

2

Significance level (\(\alpha\))

0.07

0.05

0.02

0.06

0.05

0.01

0.06

0.04

0.01

Estimated # communities (\({\hat{K}}_{\alpha }\))

3

3

3

4

3

3

5

4

4