Dear Professor Haenlein, Have you solved this issue yet? I found this eally interesting problem I was wondering if it is possible to wrapper "objective function" around igraph's 'sample_pa' and 'sample_smallworld'. If you have an example data set, I can have a look at this. Viele Gruesse aus London Mehmet
On 16 April 2016 at 14:16, Michael Haenlein <haenl...@escpeurope.eu> wrote: > Dear all, > > I am trying to simulate a series of networks that have characteristics > similar to real life social networks. Specifically I am interested in > networks that have (a) a reasonable degree of clustering (as measured by > the transitivity function in igraph) and (b) a reasonable degree of degree > polarization (as measured by the average degree of the top 10% nodes with > highest degree divided by the overall average degree). > > Right now I am using two functions from irgaph (sample_pa and > sample_smallworld) but these are not ideal since they only allow me to vary > one of the two characteristics. Either the network has good clustering but > not enough polarization or the other way round. > > I looked around and I found some network algorithms that solve the problem > (E.g., Jackson and Rogers, Meeting Strangers and Friends of Friends), but I > did not find their implemented in an R package. I also found the R package > NetSim which seems to be in this spirit, but I cannot get it to work. > > Could anyone point me to an R library that I could check out? I do not care > much about the specific algorithm used as long as it allows me to vary > clustering and degree polarization in certain ranges. > > Thanks, > > Michael > > > Michael Haenlein > Professor of Marketing > ESCP Europe, Paris > > [[alternative HTML version deleted]] > > ______________________________________________ > R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see > https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help > PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html > and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code. ______________________________________________ R-help@r-project.org mailing list -- To UNSUBSCRIBE and more, see https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html and provide commented, minimal, self-contained, reproducible code.