flament_average_path_length: Yang and Knoke's Average Path Length

In gretel: Generalized Path Analysis for Social Networks

Description

Calculates 'APL' (Average Path Length) as defined in Yang, Knoke (2001). Called flament_average_path_length in homage to A.C. Flament, who defined path length in 1963.

Usage

flament_average_path_length(sociomatrix, path)

Arguments

sociomatrix	a nonnegative, real valued sociomatrix.
path	an integer vector of node indices from sociomatrix.

See Also

flament_path_length

Examples

## Calculate 'APL' of a path in a sociomatrix
flament_average_path_length(YangKnoke01, path = c(1,2,5))

## This path doesn't exist
flament_average_path_length(YangKnoke01, path = c(1,2,4,5))

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