Network Terms and Measures
Attribute
A characteristic of a network member, such as age, education, gender, specialty, discipline, or other background or demographic characteristics.
Centrality
The extent to which a network member is central. Centrality can take several forms: degree centrality, often gauged using the relative number of direct ties as a proportion of the total number of network ties; betweenness centrality, centrality with respect to the largest constituencies; and closeness centrality, network members with the shortest average paths to all the other members.
Clique
A subset of three or more densely interconnected people. A strict definition specifies all possible relationships present; a relaxed definition specifies ...
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