{"id":188,"date":"2009-10-21T22:13:28","date_gmt":"2009-10-22T05:13:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog-socialmediamarketing\/?p=188"},"modified":"2009-11-07T08:57:21","modified_gmt":"2009-11-07T15:57:21","slug":"metrics-measures-in-social-network-analysis-part-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/metrics-measures-in-social-network-analysis-part-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Metrics (Measures) in social network analysis (Part 2)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Individual-level Density<br \/>\nThe degree a respondent&#8217;s ties know one another\/ proportion of ties among an individual&#8217;s nominees. Network or global-level density is the proportion of ties in a network relative to the total number possible (sparse versus dense networks).<\/p>\n<p>Flow betweenness centrality<br \/>\nThe degree that a node contributes to sum of maximum flow between all pairs of nodes (not that node).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"www.faculty.ucr.edu\/~hanneman\/nettext\/C10_Centrality.html\">Eigenvector centrality<\/a><br \/>\nA measure of the importance of a node in a network. It assigns relative scores to all nodes in the network based on the principle that connections to nodes having a high score contribute more to the score of the node in question.<\/p>\n<p>Local Bridge<br \/>\nAn edge is a local bridge if its endpoints share no common neighbors. Unlike a bridge, a local bridge is contained in a cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Path Length<br \/>\nThe distances between pairs of nodes in the network. Average path-length is the average of these distances between all pairs of nodes.<\/p>\n<p>Prestige<br \/>\nIn a directed graph prestige is the term used to describe a node&#8217;s centrality. &#8220;Degree Prestige&#8221;, &#8220;Proximity Prestige&#8221;, and &#8220;Status Prestige&#8221; are all measures of Prestige.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science?_ob=ArticleURL&#038;_udi=B6VD1-3SX6NDT-5&#038;_user=10&#038;_rdoc=1&#038;_fmt=&#038;_orig=search&#038;_sort=d&#038;_docanchor=&#038;view=c&#038;_searchStrId=1082215936&#038;_rerunOrigin=google&#038;_acct=C000050221&#038;_version=1&#038;_urlVersion=0&#038;_userid=10&#038;md5=d7ddc76ccd3501bd11877dd3879939cf\">Radiality<br \/>\n<\/a>Degree an individual\u2019s network reaches out into the network and provides novel information and influence.<\/p>\n<p>Reach<br \/>\nThe degree any member of a network can reach other members of the network.<br \/>\nStructural cohesion. The minimum number of members who, if removed from a group, would disconnect the group.<\/p>\n<p>Structural equivalence<br \/>\nRefers to the extent to which nodes have a common set of linkages to other nodes in the system. The nodes don\u2019t need to have any ties to each other to be structurally equivalent.<br \/>\nStructural hole Static holes that can be strategically filled by connecting one or more links to link together other points. Linked to ideas of social capital: if you link to two people who are not linked you can control their communication.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Individual-level Density The degree a respondent&#8217;s ties know one another\/ proportion of ties among an individual&#8217;s nominees. Network or global-level density is the proportion of ties in a network relative to the total number possible (sparse versus dense networks). Flow betweenness centrality The degree that a node contributes to sum of maximum flow between all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,67,27,26],"tags":[66,65],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=188"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":276,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188\/revisions\/276"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.avignyata.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}