Re: [igraph] graph.density => low, moderate and high value range

[Tamás Nepusz]

There is no such consideration for the density as it generally depends on the number of nodes in your network as well. For instance, consider a network with 1 million nodes. In a network like this, a "moderate" density of 0.25 would yield approximately 125 billion edges. So, as your network grows, your notion of a density being "low", "moderate" or "high" changes a lot.

I'd probably calculate the average degree in your network instead (i.e. the average number of connections a randomly selected node has in the network) - but you still have to come up with your own rough guidelines about what to consider a "low" average degree, a "moderate" or a "high" average degree. For instance, an average degree less than 1 would show that your network is not even fully connected (i.e. not every node can be reached from every other node).

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T.

On Sunday, 12 February 2012 at 23:01, Carlos Eduardo wrote:

Hello,

I am dealing with "graph.density" in an organizational network and I am not fiding information about what value range could be considered as low, moderate or high density (just an example about what I am looking for: low 0 to 0.25 / moderate 0.25 to 0.75 / high 0.75 to 1). I have checked several articles and I couldn't find any information about this. 

Does anyone know any article, or even may tell me what I could consider as low, moderate and high density range? 

Many thanks in advance,

Cadu

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