Thanks a lot for the advice!

On Thu, Apr 26, 2018 at 5:26 PM, Tiago de Paula Peixoto <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 26.04.2018 15:29, Zahra Sheikhbahaee wrote:
> > In my network, beside to the information of which two nodes create an
> edge,
> > I have the information of the time duration which an edge has lasted. I
> > included this information as weight and used them as the covariate
> >  of the SBM. The results seems more reasonable compared to not
> considering
> > any weights. However, the number of blocks changes slightly in each time
> I
> > ran my script with the piece of code given before. So I was wondering if
> I
> > must run minimize_nested_blockmodel_dl function by determining the higher
> > number of MCMC iterations as argument, and then I would get more accurate
> > results with highest confidence interval or I just need to repeat this
> > function in a loop and then compute the mean number of blocks? I hope my
> > question makes sense.
>
> You should run the algorithm multiple times, and choose the result with the
> smallest description length. You get this value via the method
> state.entropy().
>
> Best,
> Tiago
>
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