Asymptotic theory in a class of directed random graph models with a differentially private bi-degree sequence

Although the asymptotic properties of the parameter estimator have been derived in the $p_{0}$ model for directed graphs with the differentially private bi-degree sequence, asymptotic theory in general models is still lacking. In this paper, we release the bi-degree sequence of directed graphs via the discrete Laplace mechanism, which satisfies differential privacy. We use the moment method to estimate the unknown model parameter. We establish a unified asymptotic result, in which consistency and asymptotic normality of the differentially private estimator holds. We apply the unified theoretical result to the Probit model. Simulations and a real data demonstrate our theoretical findings.