measure_brokerage: Measures of brokerage

In netrics: Many Ways to Measure and Classify Membership for Networks, Nodes, and Ties

Measures of brokerage

Description

These functions include ways to measure nodes' brokerage activity and exclusivity in a network:

• node_by_brokering_activity() measures nodes' brokerage activity.

• node_by_brokering_exclusivity() measures nodes' brokerage exclusivity.

Usage

node_by_brokering_activity(.data, membership)

node_by_brokering_exclusivity(.data, membership)

Arguments

.data	A network object of class mnet, igraph, tbl_graph, network, or similar. For more information on the standard coercion possible, see manynet::as_tidygraph().
membership	A character string naming an existing node attribute in the network, or a categorical vector of the same length as the number of nodes in the network where each element indicates the group membership of the corresponding node. While this may often be a vector created using ⁠node_in_*()⁠ functions, it can be any character vector that assigns nodes to groups or categories.

Value

A node_measure numeric vector the length of the nodes in the network, providing the scores for each node. If the network is labelled, then the scores will be labelled with the nodes' names.

References

On brokerage activity and exclusivity

Hamilton, Matthew, Jacob Hileman, and Orjan Bodin. 2020. "Evaluating heterogeneous brokerage: New conceptual and methodological approaches and their application to multi-level environmental governance networks" Social Networks 61: 1-10. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1016/j.socnet.2019.08.002")}

See Also

Other measures: measure_assort_net, measure_assort_node, measure_breadth, measure_broker_node, measure_broker_tie, measure_central_between, measure_central_close, measure_central_degree, measure_central_eigen, measure_centralities_between, measure_centralities_close, measure_centralities_degree, measure_centralities_eigen, measure_closure, measure_closure_node, measure_cohesion, measure_core, measure_diffusion_infection, measure_diffusion_net, measure_diffusion_node, measure_diverse_net, measure_diverse_node, measure_features, measure_fragmentation, measure_hierarchy, measure_periods

Other nodal: mark_core, mark_degree, mark_diff, mark_nodes, mark_select_node, measure_assort_node, measure_broker_node, measure_central_between, measure_central_close, measure_central_degree, measure_central_eigen, measure_closure_node, measure_core, measure_diffusion_node, measure_diverse_node, member_brokerage, member_cliques, member_community, member_community_hier, member_community_non, member_components, member_core, member_diffusion, member_equivalence, motif_brokerage_node, motif_exposure, motif_node, motif_path

Other brokerage: measure_broker_node, measure_broker_tie, member_brokerage, motif_brokerage_net, motif_brokerage_node

Examples

node_by_brokering_exclusivity(ison_networkers, "Discipline")

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