max_betweenness {treestats}

Maximum betweenness centrality.

Description

Betweenness centrality associates with each node v, the two nodes u, w, for which the shortest path between u and w runs through v, if the tree were re-rooted at node v. Then, we report the node with maximum betweenness centrality.

Usage

max_betweenness(phy, normalization = "none")

Arguments

phy

phylo object or ltable

normalization

"none" or "tips", if tips is chosen, the obtained maximum betweenness is normalized by the total amount of node pair combinations considered, e.g. (n-2)*(n-1), where n is the number of tips.

Value

Maximum Betweenness

References

Chindelevitch, Leonid, et al. "Network science inspires novel tree shape statistics." Plos one 16.12 (2021): e0259877.