pairwisedis {centiserve} | R Documentation |
Find the pairwise disconnectivity index
Description
The pairwise disconnectivity index of vertex ,
defined as:
where is the total number of ordered pairs of vertices in a network that are connected by at least one directed path of any length. It is supposed that
> 0, i.e., there exists at least one edge in the network that links two different vertices.
is the number of ordered pairs that are still connected after removing vertex
from the network, via alternative paths through other vertices.
Usage
pairwisedis(graph, vids = V(graph))
Arguments
graph |
The input graph as igraph object |
vids |
Vertex sequence, the vertices for which the centrality values are returned. Default is all vertices. |
Details
The pairwise disconnectivity defined as index of vertex ,
, as the fraction of those initially connected pairs of vertices in a network which become disconnected if vertex
is removed from the network. The pairwise disconnectivity index quantifies how crucial an individual element is for sustaining the communication ability between connected pairs of vertices in a network that is displayed as a directed graph.
More detail at Pairwise Disconnectivity Index
Value
A numeric vector contaning the centrality scores for the selected vertices.
Author(s)
Mahdi Jalili m_jalili@farabi.tums.ac.ir
References
Potapov, Anatolij P., Bjorn Goemann, and Edgar Wingender. "The pairwise disconnectivity index as a new metric for the topological analysis of regulatory networks." BMC bioinformatics 9.1 (2008): 227.
Examples
g <- graph(c(1,2,2,3,3,4,4,2))
pairwisedis(g)