NetworkToolbox: impact – R documentation

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impact

Node Impact

Description

Computes impact measure or how much the average distance in the network changes with that node removed of each node in a network (Please see and cite Kenett et al., 2011)

Usage

impact(A)

Arguments

`A`	An adjacency matrix of network data

Value

A vector of node impact values for each node in the network (impact > 0, greater ASPL when node is removed; impact < 0, lower ASPL when node is removed)

Author(s)

Alexander Christensen <alexpaulchristensen@gmail.com>

References

Cotter, K. N., Christensen, A. P., & Silvia, P. J. (in press). Understanding inner music: A dimensional approach to musical imagery. Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and the Arts.

Kenett, Y. N., Kenett, D. Y., Ben-Jacob, E., & Faust, M. (2011). Global and local features of semantic networks: Evidence from the Hebrew mental lexicon. PLoS one, 6, e23912.

Examples

# normal set to FALSE for CRAN tests
A <- TMFG(neoOpen, normal = FALSE)$A

nodeimpact <- impact(A)

NetworkToolbox

Methods and Measures for Brain, Cognitive, and Psychometric Network Analysis

v1.4.1

GPL (>= 3.0)

Authors

Alexander Christensen [aut, cre] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9798-7037>), Guido Previde Massara [ctb] (<https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0502-2789>)

Initial release

2020-12-07