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Learning Graph Quality Metrics Report

Overview

  • Total Concepts: 500
  • Foundational Concepts (no prerequisites, other concepts depend on them): 6
  • Terminal Nodes (nothing depends on them, but have prerequisites): 268
  • Orphaned Nodes (completely disconnected, no edges): 0
  • Concepts with Dependencies: 494
  • Average Dependencies per Concept: 1.50

Graph Structure Validation

  • Valid DAG Structure: ✅ Yes
  • Self-Dependencies: None detected ✅
  • Cycles Detected: 0

Foundational Concepts

These concepts have no prerequisites:

  • 1: Public Health Definition
  • 70: Descriptive Statistics
  • 77: Probability Fundamentals
  • 258: Bioethics Principles
  • 333: Systems Thinking Concepts
  • 402: Python for Public Health

Dependency Chain Analysis

  • Maximum Dependency Chain Length: 12

Longest Learning Path:

  1. Public Health Definition (ID: 1)
  2. Population Health (ID: 2)
  3. Health Indicators (ID: 12)
  4. Incidence Rate (ID: 21)
  5. Prevalence Proportion (ID: 22)
  6. Relative Risk (ID: 31)
  7. Cohort Study Design (ID: 39)
  8. Randomized Controlled Trial (ID: 40)
  9. Hierarchy of Evidence (ID: 308)
  10. GRADE Framework (ID: 311)
  11. Dietary Intervention Evidence (ID: 319)
  12. Obesity Prevention Strategies (ID: 321)

Terminal Nodes Analysis

Terminal nodes are concepts that nothing else depends on but have prerequisites. They represent natural endpoints of learning paths — culminating or specialized concepts.

  • Total Terminal Nodes: 268 (53.6% of all concepts)
  • Healthy Range: 5-40% of total concepts

Concepts at the end of learning paths:

  • 10: Essential Public Health Services
  • 16: Tertiary Prevention
  • 17: Primordial Prevention
  • 18: Public Health Workforce
  • 20: One Health Framework
  • 23: Cumulative Incidence
  • 27: Morbidity Rate
  • 29: Secondary Attack Rate
  • 35: Population Attrib Fraction
  • 36: Number Needed to Treat
  • 41: Ecological Study Design
  • 42: Natural Experiment Design
  • 44: Directed Acyclic Graph
  • 45: Counterfactual Model
  • 47: Selection Bias
  • 48: Information Bias
  • 49: Effect Modification
  • 52: Active Surveillance
  • 54: Syndromic Surveillance
  • 59: Index Case Identification

...and 248 more

Orphaned Nodes Analysis

Orphaned nodes are completely disconnected concepts with no inbound AND no outbound edges. These indicate a quality problem — every concept should connect to the graph.

  • Total Orphaned Nodes: 0

✅ No orphaned nodes detected. All concepts are connected to the graph.

Connected Components

  • Number of Connected Components: 1

✅ All concepts are connected in a single graph.

Indegree Analysis

Top 10 concepts that are prerequisites for the most other concepts:

Rank Concept ID Concept Label Indegree
1 443 MicroSim Design Principles 21
2 1 Public Health Definition 20
3 70 Descriptive Statistics 16
4 50 Surveillance System Design 15
5 230 Social Determinants of Health 13
6 2 Population Health 12
7 4 Determinants of Health 12
8 138 Health Belief Model 12
9 173 US Health System Structure 12
10 357 Stock-and-Flow Diagram 11

Outdegree Distribution

Dependencies Number of Concepts
0 6
1 264
2 215
3 15

Recommendations

  • ℹ️ High terminal node percentage (53.6%): Consider if some terminal concepts should be prerequisites for advanced concepts
  • DAG structure verified: Graph supports valid learning progressions
  • ℹ️ Consider adding cross-dependencies: More connections could create richer learning pathways

Report generated by learning-graph-reports/analyze_graph.py