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small-world coefficient: a standalone construct

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Network science

ratio of a network's clustering to its path length, each relative to random graphs, used to quantify small-world structure.

In network science, small-world coefficient refers to ratio of a network's clustering to its path length, each relative to random graphs, used to quantify small-world structure. This meaning comes from Humphries (2008) in PLoS ONE.[1]

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Recovery means
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network4 fields · 6 citationsjingle · one word, four constructspath3 fields · 3 citationsjingle · one word, three constructssmall-world3 fields · 3 citationsinvariant · one construct, three systems

References

  1. Humphries, M. D., & Gurney, K. (2008). Network ‘Small-World-Ness’: A Quantitative Method for Determining Canonical Network Equivalence. PLoS ONE, 3(4), e0002051. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0002051

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