While the ER model's simplicity has helped it find many applications, it does not accurately describe many real world networks. The ER model fails to generate local clustering and [[triadic closure]]s as often as they are found in real world networks. Therefore, the [[Watts and Strogatz model]] was proposed, whereby a network is constructed as a regular ring lattice, and then nodes are rewired according to some probability '''β'''.<ref name=WS>{{cite journal | While the ER model's simplicity has helped it find many applications, it does not accurately describe many real world networks. The ER model fails to generate local clustering and [[triadic closure]]s as often as they are found in real world networks. Therefore, the [[Watts and Strogatz model]] was proposed, whereby a network is constructed as a regular ring lattice, and then nodes are rewired according to some probability '''β'''.<ref name=WS>{{cite journal |