Re: [igraph] Question re local and global transitivity

[Gabor Csardi]

Vincent,

see  http://arxiv.org/pdf/cond-mat/0303516
and Fig 5 on page 11.

G.

ps. i haven't (re)checked igraph's results now, so if you find an
error, please report it. Thank.

On Sun, Aug 26, 2007 at 08:40:41PM -0400, Vincent Matossian wrote:
> 
>  Hi,
> 
> I am trying to understand why global transitivity isn't equal to the average 
> of
> the local?
> 
> for example:
> 
> erg10<-random.graph.game(10,p=0.5)
> is.connected(erg10)
> ##[1] TRUE
> transitivity(erg10)
> ##[1] 0.5757576
> mean(transitivity(erg10,type="local"))
> ##[1] 0.5204762
> 
> 
> In theory, shouldn't the mean and the global yield the same result?
> 
> Please let me know, thanks!
> 
> Vincent
> 
> 

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