Table 4.

The node fraction for each backbone extraction method as a function of the edge fraction calculated using netbone’s comparison framework.

Edge fraction	Global threshold	High salience	Doubly stochastic	Global sparsification	Weighted betweenness
0.01	0.09	0.3	0.31	0.15	0.40
0.05	0.22	1.0	0.78	0.23	0.77
0.10	0.37	1.0	0.83	0.29	0.96
0.15	0.52	1.0	0.85	0.35	0.99
0.20	0.65	1.0	0.85	0.38	1.00
0.25	0.77	1.0	0.86	0.45	1.00
0.30	0.86	1.0	0.86	0.50	1.00
0.35	0.91	1.0	0.87	0.55	1.00
0.40	0.95	1.0	0.87	0.62	1.00
0.45	0.97	1.0	0.88	0.67	1.00

Significant values are in [bold].