This function calculates two degree measures: the number of contacts that a node is connected to, and the sum of weights on ties originating from a node (out-strength). To calculate the reverse (in-degree, in-strength), specify type="in".
measure: specifies which measures should be calculated
type: shall out- or in-measures be calculated? Default is out. For undirected networks, this setting is irrelevant, but must be specified.
alpha: sets the alpha parameter in the generalised measures from Opsahl, T., Agneessens, F., Skvoretz, J., 2010. Node Centrality in Weighted Networks: Generalizing Degree and Shortest Paths. Social Networks. If this parameter is set to 1 (default), the sum of tie weights is used. This measure simply use the tie weights and disregards the number of nodes on the paths.
Returns
Returns a data.frame with two or more columns: the first column contains the nodes' ids, and the remaining columns contain the scores of the measures specified in the measure-parameter.
## Load sample datanetwork <- rbind(c(1,2,4),c(1,3,2),c(2,1,4),c(2,3,4),c(2,4,1),c(2,5,2),c(3,1,2),c(3,2,4),c(4,2,1),c(5,2,2),c(5,6,1),c(6,5,1))## Run the programmedegree_w(network)