analyze_ptn {NetOrigin}

analyze public transportation network characteristics

Description

analyze public transportation network characteristics

Usage

analyze_ptn(g)

Arguments

g

igraph object, network graph representing the public transportation network, vertices represent stations, which are linked by an edge if there is a direct transfer between them

Value

'data.frame': 1 obs. of 7 variables:

• vcount number of nodes,

• ecount number of edges,

• density network graph density,

• av_deg average degree,

• av_cent average unit betweenness,

• diam diameter, and

• trans transitivity.

References

Details to the computation and interpretation can be found in:

• Kolaczyk, E. D. (2009). Statistical analysis of network data: methods and models. Springer series in statistics. Springer. <DOI: 10.1007/978-0-387-88146-1>

• Manitz, J. (2014): Statistical Inference for Propagation Processes on Complex Networks. Ph.D. thesis, Georg-August-University Goettingen. Verlag Dr.~Hut, ISBN 978-3-8439-1668-4. Available online: https://ediss.uni-goettingen.de/handle/11858/00-1735-0000-0022-5F38-B.

See Also

Other network helper: plot_ptn()

Examples

data(ptnAth)
analyze_ptn(ptnAth)

data(ptnGoe)
analyze_ptn(ptnGoe)