Thanks for the quick reply. It is indeed true that variance should be NaN
but assortativity would be zero if I understand it correctly. Now, when
instead of 'float', I use 'int' as the type for the property map, I do get
0 value for the assortativity. Thus I guess that the values are wrong and
it is a bug. Am I right? From your reply, it isn't clear to me if this is a
bug.

Snehal

On Wed, Oct 4, 2017 at 6:37 PM, Tiago de Paula Peixoto <[email protected]>
wrote:

> On 04.10.2017 13:27, Snehal Shekatkar wrote:
> >
> > I am using gt.scalar_assortativity and I observed that it returns
> non-zero
> > values and big variance values even when the values on the nodes are
> exactly
> > same.
> >
> > g = gt.collection.data['karate']
> > s = g.new_vertex_property('float')
> > for v in g.vertices():
> >      s[v] = 0.9999
> > gt.scalar_assortativity(g, deg = s)
> >
> > This returns : (1.0, 8.889098493616578)
> >
> > I expect to see (0, 0) here. What am I missing?
> >
>
> The scalar assortativity coefficient is undefined if the variance is zero,
> since it appears in the denominator.
>
> The expectation that it will be zero in this case is incorrect, since the
> limit where the variance goes to zero is also undefined in general.
>
> The proper answer in this case would be to return "NaN". I'll modify the
> code in this way.
>
> Best,
> Tiago
>
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