Reciprocity
The reciprocity of a directed network reflects the proportion of edges that are symmetrical. That is, the proportion of outgoing edges that also have an incoming edge. It is commonly used to determine how inter-connected directed networks are. An example of a such a network may be grooming exchanges in chimpanzees. Certain chimps may groom another but do not get groomed by that individual, whereas other chimps may both groom each other and so would have a reciprocal tie.
Este ejercicio forma parte del curso
Network Analysis in R
Instrucciones del ejercicio
- In this example network of chimps grooming each other, make an exploratory plot of the network
g
usingplot()
. Make the arrow size 0.3 using the argumentedge.arrow.size
and the arrow width 0.5 using the argumentedge.arrow.width
. - Calculate the reciprocity of the graph using
reciprocity()
.
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library(igraph)
# Make a plot of the chimp grooming network
plot(g,
edge.color = "black",
___ = 0.3,
___ = 0.5)
# Calculate the reciprocity of the graph
___(g)