Characterization of tail dependence for in-degree and pageRank

Abstract

The dependencies between power law parameters such as in-degree and PageRank, can be characterized by the so-called angular measure, a notion used in extreme value theory to describe the dependency between very large values of coordinates of a random vector. Basing on an analytical stochastic model, we argue that the angular measure for in-degree and personalized PageRank is concentrated in two points. This corresponds to the two main factors for high ranking: large in-degree and a high rank of one of the ancestors. Furthermore, we can formally establish the relative importance of these two factors. © 2009 Springer Berlin Heidelberg.