OTPtransitivity {nemBM}

Outgoing two-path mechanism

Description

Calculates the network statistic according to the outgoing two path mechanism.

Usage

OTPtransitivity(X, actor)

Arguments

X

Binary network; of class matrix.

actor

A unit (actor; row/column number), which have an opportunity to change a link.

Value

A vector with the number of paths of length two between the actor and other units.

Author(s)

Marjan Cugmas and Aleš Žiberna

References

Cugmas, M., & Žiberna, A. (2022). Approaches to blockmodeling dynamic networks: a Monte Carlo simulation study. Social Networks, in print.

Examples

X <- matrix(sample(c(0,1), size = 9**2, replace = TRUE), nrow = 9)
OTPtransitivity(X, actor = 2)