Find Bonacich alpha centrality scores of network positions
alpha_centrality calculates the alpha centrality of some (or all)
vertices in a graph.
alpha_centrality( graph, nodes = V(graph), alpha = 1, loops = FALSE, exo = 1, weights = NULL, tol = 1e-07, sparse = TRUE )
graph |
The input graph, can be directed or undirected |
nodes |
Vertex sequence, the vertices for which the alpha centrality values are returned. (For technical reasons they will be calculated for all vertices, anyway.) |
alpha |
Parameter specifying the relative importance of endogenous versus exogenous factors in the determination of centrality. See details below. |
loops |
Whether to eliminate loop edges from the graph before the calculation. |
exo |
The exogenous factors, in most cases this is either a constant – the same factor for every node, or a vector giving the factor for every vertex. Note that too long vectors will be truncated and too short vectors will be replicated to match the number of vertices. |
weights |
A character scalar that gives the name of the edge attribute
to use in the adjacency matrix. If it is |
tol |
Tolerance for near-singularities during matrix inversion, see
|
sparse |
Logical scalar, whether to use sparse matrices for the calculation. The ‘Matrix’ package is required for sparse matrix support |
The alpha centrality measure can be considered as a generalization of eigenvector centerality to directed graphs. It was proposed by Bonacich in 2001 (see reference below).
The alpha centrality of the vertices in a graph is defined as the solution of the following matrix equation:
x=alpha t(A)x+e,
where A is the (not necessarily symmetric) adjacency matrix of the graph, e is the vector of exogenous sources of status of the vertices and alpha is the relative importance of the endogenous versus exogenous factors.
A numeric vector contaning the centrality scores for the selected vertices.
Singular adjacency matrices cause problems for this algorithm, the routine may fail is certain cases.
Gabor Csardi csardi.gabor@gmail.com
Bonacich, P. and Lloyd, P. (2001). “Eigenvector-like measures of centrality for asymmetric relations” Social Networks, 23, 191-201.
# The examples from Bonacich's paper g.1 <- graph( c(1,3,2,3,3,4,4,5) ) g.2 <- graph( c(2,1,3,1,4,1,5,1) ) g.3 <- graph( c(1,2,2,3,3,4,4,1,5,1) ) alpha_centrality(g.1) alpha_centrality(g.2) alpha_centrality(g.3,alpha=0.5)
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