list_centralities: Catalogue of the Centrality Measures

In cograph: Analysis and Visualization of Complex Networks

Catalogue of the Centrality Measures

Description

A tidy table of every measure centrality can compute, with the facts you need before you read a column of results: which end of the scale marks a prominent node, whether the measure needs a community partition, whether it reads edge weights, and whether it is held back from type = "all" because its cost grows steeply.

Usage

list_centralities(orientation = NULL, costly = NULL, needs_membership = NULL)

Arguments

orientation	Keep only measures with this orientation: "higher" or "lower". Default NULL keeps both.
costly	Keep only costly measures (TRUE) or only the rest (FALSE). Default NULL keeps both.
needs_membership	Keep only measures that require a partition (TRUE) or only those that do not (FALSE). Default NULL keeps both.

Details

Twelve measures are oriented so that a low value marks the more central node, and sorting their column the usual way puts the periphery on top. Filter with orientation = "lower" to see them.

Value

A data.frame with one row per measure and the columns measure (the name to pass to centrality(measures = )), orientation ("higher" or "lower", which end of the scale marks a prominent node), mode_aware (whether the measure accepts mode and its column carries a mode suffix), needs_membership, uses_weights, and costly (held back from type = "all"; add it with include = ). Rows are ordered by measure name.

See Also

centrality to compute them, centrality_degree and the other one-measure verbs.

Examples

# Every measure, with the facts needed to read its column
head(list_centralities())

# The measures where a low value marks the more central node
list_centralities(orientation = "lower")

# The measures held back from type = "all"
list_centralities(costly = TRUE)

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