flament_average_path_length {gretel}

Yang and Knoke's Average Path Length

Description

Calculates 'APL' (Average Path Length) as defined in Yang, Knoke (2001). Called flament_average_path_length in homage to A.C. Flament, who defined path length in 1963.

Usage

flament_average_path_length(sociomatrix, path)

Arguments

sociomatrix

a nonnegative, real valued sociomatrix.

path

an integer vector of node indices from sociomatrix.

See Also

flament_path_length

Examples

## Calculate 'APL' of a path in a sociomatrix
flament_average_path_length(YangKnoke01, path = c(1,2,5))

## This path doesn't exist
flament_average_path_length(YangKnoke01, path = c(1,2,4,5))