# Extracts the Backbone from Graphs

## Documentation for package ‘backbone’ version 2.0.3

- DESCRIPTION file.
- User guides, package vignettes and other documentation.

## Help Pages

backbone | backbone: Extracts the Backbone from Graphs
backbone.extract | Extracts a backbone network from a backbone object
backbone.suggest | Suggest a backbone model
bicm | Bipartite Configuration Model
bipartite.add.blocks | Adds a block structure to a bipartite network
bipartite.from.distribution | Generates a bipartite network with given row and column degree distributions
bipartite.from.probability | Generates a bipartite network with given edge probability
bipartite.from.sequence | Generates a bipartite graph from row and column degree sequences
disparity | Extract backbone using the Disparity Filter
fastball | Randomize a binary matrix using the fastball algorithm
fdsm | Extract backbone using the Fixed Degree Sequence Model
fixedcol | Extract backbone using the Fixed Column Model
fixedfill | Extract backbone using the Fixed Fill Model
fixedrow | Extract backbone using the Fixed Row Model
global | Compute global threshold backbone
hyperg | Wrapper for fixedrow()
osdsm | Extract backbone using the Ordinal Stochastic Degree Sequence Model
sdsm | Extract backbone using the Stochastic Degree Sequence Model
sparsify | Extract the backbone from a network using a sparsification model
sparsify.with.geometric | Extract Goldberg and Roth's (2003) Geometric backbone
sparsify.with.gspar | Extract Satuluri et al's (2011) G-spar backbone
sparsify.with.hypergeometric | Extract Goldberg and Roth's (2003) Hypergeometric backbone
sparsify.with.jaccard | Extract Goldberg and Roth's (2003) Jaccard backbone
sparsify.with.localdegree | Extract Hamann et al.'s (2016) Local Degree backbone
sparsify.with.lspar | Extract Satuluri et al's (2011) L-spar backbone
sparsify.with.meetmin | Extract Goldberg and Roth's (2003) MeetMin backbone
sparsify.with.quadrilateral | Extract Nocaj et al.'s (2015) Quadrilateral Simmelian backbone
sparsify.with.simmelian | Extract Nick et al's (2013) Simmelian backbone
sparsify.with.skeleton | Extract Karger's (1999) skeleton backbone
universal | Wrapper for global()