centrality_brokerage_itinerant: Gould-Fernandez Brokerage — Itinerant (Consultant) Role

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Gould-Fernandez Brokerage — Itinerant (Consultant) Role

Description

Itinerant brokerage (w_O): count of open directed 2-paths A \to V \to A where the two endpoints are in the same group but the broker V is in a different group. The broker mediates within another group as an outsider.

Usage

centrality_brokerage_itinerant(x, membership = NULL, ...)

Arguments

x	Directed network input (matrix, igraph, cograph_network, tna object).
membership	Integer or character vector of group assignments, length equal to the number of nodes. Required.
...	Additional arguments passed to centrality.

Details

Bit-exact match against sna::brokerage$raw.nli[, "w_O"]. Directed-only.

Value

Named integer vector of itinerant role counts.

References

Gould & Fernandez (1989).

See Also

centrality_brokerage_coordinator.

Examples

adj <- matrix(c(0,1,1,0, 0,0,1,1, 0,0,0,1, 1,0,0,0), 4, 4, byrow = TRUE)
rownames(adj) <- colnames(adj) <- c("A", "B", "C", "D")
centrality_brokerage_itinerant(adj, membership = c(1, 1, 2, 2))

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