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apply some Gigascience copyeditor changes #75

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While predictions based primarily on degree may be acceptable for some tasks, generating less obvious insights from networks requires drawing inferences from the specific connections and network structure between nodes.
Model evaluation is challenging in this context: nonspecific or trivial predictions can dominate performance evaluations and may actually be correct, even if they are not the desired outputs of the predictive model.
For example, predicting that the highest degree node in a network shares edges with the remaining nodes to which it is not connected will often lead to many correct predictions, despite this prediction being generic to all other nodes in the network.

Degree is important in edge prediction, but it can cause undesired effects.
Degree-based features should often be included in the interpretation of predictions to disentangle desired from non-desired effects and to effectively evaluate and compare predictive models.
Degree-based features should often be included in the interpretation of predictions to disentangle desired from undesired effects and to effectively evaluate and compare predictive models.
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we might want to make this change (nondesired --> undesired) in the Gigascience version as well

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@dhimmel dhimmel requested a review from zietzm January 12, 2024 16:47
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@dhimmel dhimmel merged commit 084aa98 into main Jan 12, 2024
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@dhimmel dhimmel deleted the dsh-gigascience-copyedits branch January 15, 2024 13:58
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