motif_brokerage_node: Motifs of nodes brokerage

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

Motifs of nodes brokerage

Description

node_x_brokerage() returns the Gould-Fernandez brokerage roles played by nodes in a network.

Usage

node_x_brokerage(.data, membership, standardized = FALSE)

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.
standardized	Whether the score should be standardized into a z-score indicating how many standard deviations above or below the average the score lies.

Value

A node_motif matrix with one row for each node in the network and a column for each motif type, giving the count of each motif in which each node participates. It is printed as a tibble, however, to avoid greedy printing. If the network is labelled, then the node names will be in a column named names.

References

On brokerage motifs

Gould, Roger V., and Roberto M. Fernandez. 1989. “Structures of Mediation: A Formal Approach to Brokerage in Transaction Networks.” Sociological Methodology, 19: 89-126. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.2307/270949")}

Jasny, Lorien, and Mark Lubell. 2015. “Two-Mode Brokerage in Policy Networks.” Social Networks 41:36–47. \Sexpr[results=rd]{tools:::Rd_expr_doi("10.1016/j.socnet.2014.11.005")}

See Also

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

Other motifs: motif_brokerage_net, motif_exposure, motif_hazard, motif_hierarchy, motif_net, motif_node, motif_path, motif_periods

Other nodal: mark_core, mark_degree, mark_diff, mark_nodes, mark_select_node, measure_assort_node, measure_broker_node, measure_brokerage, 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_exposure, motif_node, motif_path

Examples

node_x_brokerage(ison_networkers, "Discipline")

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