Measures of network change

Source: R/measure_features.R

These functions measure certain topological features of networks:

  • net_waves() measures the number of waves in longitudinal network data.

  • net_change() measures the Hamming distance between two or more networks.

  • net_stability() measures the Jaccard index of stability between two or more networks.

  • net_correlation() measures the product-moment correlation between two networks.

These net_*() functions return a numeric vector the length of the number of networks minus one. E.g., the periods between waves.

net_waves(.data)

net_change(.data, object2)

net_stability(.data, object2)

net_correlation(.data, object2)

Arguments

.data

An object of a manynet-consistent class:

  • matrix (adjacency or incidence) from {base} R

  • edgelist, a data frame from {base} R or tibble from {tibble}

  • igraph, from the {igraph} package

  • network, from the {network} package

  • tbl_graph, from the {tidygraph} package

object2

A network object.