In Social Network Analysis (SNA) centrality measures focus on activity (degree), information access (betweenness), distance to all the nodes (closeness), or popularity (pagerank). We introduce a new measure quantifying the distance of nodes to the network center. It is called weighted distance to nearest center (WDNC) and it is based on edge-weighted closeness (EWC), a weighted version of closeness. It combines elements of weighted centrality as well as clustering. The WDNC will be tested on two e-mail networks of the R community, one of the most important open source programs for statistical computing and graphics. We will find that there is a relationship between the WDNC and the formal organization of the R community. / Series: Research Report Series / Department of Statistics and Mathematics
Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VIENNA/oai:epub.wu-wien.ac.at:epub-wu-01_fa9 |
Date | January 2009 |
Creators | Bohn, Angela, TheuĂl, Stefan, Feinerer, Ingo, Hornik, Kurt, Mair, Patrick, Walchhofer, Norbert |
Publisher | Department of Statistics and Mathematics, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business |
Source Sets | Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien |
Language | English |
Detected Language | English |
Type | Paper, NonPeerReviewed |
Format | application/pdf |
Relation | http://statmath.wu.ac.at/, http://epub.wu.ac.at/1466/ |
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