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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2025 Mar 1.
Published in final edited form as: Multivariate Behav Res. 2024 Feb 15;59(2):266–288. doi: 10.1080/00273171.2023.2254767

Table 5.

SSE Comparisons for Weighted Networks

SSE Results
Modularity
Network K Ward K-means Difference % Difference Ward K-means

Obama 2 0.00063952 0.00063952 0.00000000 0.00% 0.0887 0.0887
3 0.00025376 0.00025376 0.00000000 0.00% 0.1475 0.1475
4 0.00005760 0.00005760 0.00000000 0.00% 0.1342 0.1342
5 0.00003550 0.00003550 0.00000000 0.00% 0.0768 0.0768
Han 2 0.01897008 0.01897008 0.00000000 0.00% 0.2738 0.2738
3 0.00788391 0.00788391 0.00000000 0.00% 0.3019 0.3019
4 0.00621154 0.00598555 0.00022599 3.78% 0.2457 0.2667
5 0.00471093 0.00448496 0.00022597 5.04% 0.2022 0.2231
Empathy 2 0.12560777 0.12560777 0.00000000 0.00% 0.2390 0.2390
3 0.07100972 0.07100972 0.00000000 0.00% 0.3833 0.3833
4 0.04466778 0.03951395 0.00515383 13.04% 0.4163 0.4005
5 0.03497292 0.02981909 0.00515383 17.28% 0.4092 0.3933
6 0.02585761 0.02271613 0.00314148 13.83% 0.3762 0.3558
Emotion 2 0.08683991 0.08229943 0.00454048 5.52% 0.0866 0.1873
3 0.05786092 0.05521453 0.00264639 4.79% 0.2216 0.2616
4 0.04044612 0.03838701 0.00205911 5.36% 0.2735 0.2907
5 0.03339145 0.03147526 0.00191619 6.09% 0.2855 0.2985
6 0.02689232 0.02622428 0.00066804 2.55% 0.3035 0.2934
7 0.02304063 0.02152170 0.00151893 7.06% 0.3240 0.3105
8 0.01996470 0.01844577 0.00151893 8.23% 0.3022 0.2887

Note. The SSE results obtained using the walktrap algorithm with both Ward’s method and a multistart K-means clustering are reported, as is the difference in the SSE values (Ward minus K-means) and the percentage difference. Modularity scores associated with the Ward’s method and K-means clustering are also reported. For the Obama, Han, and Empathy networks, branch-and-bound was used to obtain globally-optimal K-means partitions. For the Emotion network, the multistart K-means heuristic was used.