Network statistics for computer-aided network analysis

Comparative studies of computer-aided network analysis (CANA) program performance have been handicapped by a lack of statistics about networks. This paper derives bounds and presents empirical values for: 1) the number of elements per node; 2) the sparsity of the cutset matrix; 3) the density of nonlinear nodes; 4) the relative percentage of excess capacitors and inductors; and 5) the relationship between the number of elements of each element type and the total number of elements.