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Erschienen in: Social Network Analysis and Mining 1/2018

01.12.2018 | Original Article

Generalized relationships between characteristic path length, efficiency, clustering coefficients, and density

verfasst von: Alexander Strang, Oliver Haynes, Nathan D. Cahill, Darren A. Narayan

Erschienen in: Social Network Analysis and Mining | Ausgabe 1/2018

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Abstract

Graph theoretic properties such as the clustering coefficient, characteristic (or average) path length, global and local efficiency provide valuable information regarding the structure of a graph. These four properties have applications to biological and social networks and have dominated much of the literature in these fields. While much work has done in applied settings, there has yet to be a mathematical comparison of these metrics from a theoretical standpoint. Motivated by both real-world data and computer simulations, we present asymptotic linear relationships between the characteristic path length, global efficiency, and graph density, and also between the clustering coefficient and local efficiency. In the current literature, these properties are often presented as independent metrics; however, we show in this paper that they are inextricably linked.

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Metadaten
Titel
Generalized relationships between characteristic path length, efficiency, clustering coefficients, and density
verfasst von
Alexander Strang
Oliver Haynes
Nathan D. Cahill
Darren A. Narayan
Publikationsdatum
01.12.2018
Verlag
Springer Vienna
Erschienen in
Social Network Analysis and Mining / Ausgabe 1/2018
Print ISSN: 1869-5450
Elektronische ISSN: 1869-5469
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s13278-018-0492-3

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