EFnet: Example data from Echenique and Fryer (2006)

Description Format Details Source Examples

Description

Artificial example data from Echenique & Fryer (2006) representing a city with black and white neighbourhoods.

Format

Object of class "igraph". An undirected network with vertex attributes

Details

This data is taken from Echenique & Fryer (2006, figure III). The data represent a fictional city composed of 30 neighborhoods that are either black or white.

Source

Echenique, Federico and Roland G. Fryer, Jr. (2006) "A Measure of Segregation Based On Social Interactions" Quarterly Journal of Economics CXXII(2):441-485

Examples

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if( require(igraph, quietly = TRUE) ) {
  set.seed(2992)
  plot(EFnet, layout=layout.fruchterman.reingold,
       vertex.color=V(EFnet)$type+1, vertex.label.family="",
       sub="Source: Echenique & Fryer (2006)",
       main="Neighborhood racial segregation\n in a fictional city" )
}

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