assortativity {EGAD} | R Documentation

## Calculating network assortativity

### Description

The function calculates the assortativity of a network, that measures the preference of interactions between similar nodes. As in most literature, 'similarity' is here defined in terms of node degrees.

### Usage

    assortativity(network)

### Arguments

`network` | matrix indicating network structure (symmetric)

### Value

Numeric value

### Examples

    network <- matrix( sample(c(0,1),36, replace=TRUE), nrow=6,byrow=TRUE)
    assort_value <- assortativity(network)

[Package EGAD version 1.12.0 Index]