Re: [igraph] Barabasi.Game

[Gábor Csárdi]

On Fri, Nov 4, 2011 at 6:45 AM, Thomas <address@hidden> wrote:
> Anyone know why barabasi.game() creates networks with zero transitivity?

In general it does not, unless you set m=1, which means that a tree is
generated:

> bg <- simplify(barabasi.game(1000, m=5))
> transitivity(bg)
[1] 0.01707914

> I
> thought their approach (from Barabasi, A.-L. and Albert R. 1999. Emergence
> of scaling in random networks Science, 286 509–512) was intended to capture
> the characteristics of a social network?

I don't think they intended to capture transitivity, though.

Gabor

> They discuss an actor collaboration
> network for instance.
>
> I'm running igraph on R.
>
> Thank you,
>
> Thomas Chesney
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