Close relationships: assortativity & reciprocity

Network Analysis in R

James Curley

Associate Professor, University of Texas at Austin

Assortativity

The preferential attachment of vertices to other vertices that are similar in numerical or categorical attributes.

assortativity(g, values)

0.45

assortativity.degree(
  g, 
  directed = FALSE
)

-0.31

reciprocity(g)

0.6

Network Analysis in R