Fig. 5
Different topological characteristics of the SD network (orange dots) and the PCM simulated networks with inferred parameters f=0.47,δ=5.1∗10−4 (blue dots) are compared. Multiple PCM simulations were pooled together to get a better resolution for the distributions. a. The node degree distribution is plotted on a log-linear scale with the linear binning. We can see that the exponential tail is observed in both synthetic and the SD networks and the power of exponents is the same. b. The connected component size distributions plotted on a log-log scale with the logarithmic binning. The slope observed in simulations is the same as the one of the SD network for all component sizes observed in it. The peak that corresponds to the giant component is also present where expected. c. The average number of edges in components of different sizes is plotted against a component size on a log-log scale. We can see that the average number of edges grows as a power-law of a component size: E∝N1.47 (red line) in simulated and the SD networks