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Moderate deviation principle of modularity in network

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In the present paper, we study a specific partition of a given network and establish the moderate deviation principle of modularity for the partition when the size of the network gets large.

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The authors would like to express their sincere gratitude to the anonymous referee for helpful comments which surely lead to an improved presentation of this paper, especially the equivalent description on the condition (2.6) and the proof of Theorem 3.1.

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This work is supported by NSFC (11971154) and the Foundation of Young Scholar of the Educational Department of Henan province Grant 2019GGJS012.

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Yin, Q., Miao, Y., Wang, Z. et al. Moderate deviation principle of modularity in network. Metrika 87, 281–298 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00184-023-00914-4

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