June 2020
Intermediate to advanced
382 pages
11h 39m
English
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Understanding centrality measures
There are different measures for understanding the centrality of a particular vertex in a graph or subgraph. For example, they can quantify the importance of a person in a social network or the importance of a building in a city.
The following centrality measures are widely used in graph analysis:
Degree
Betweenness
Closeness
Eigenvector
Let's discuss them in detail.