Hello Joice, I do not think the terminology you are using (cost, strength) is standard, and it is not clear what you mean.
The concept of betweenness centrality is based on the idea of (shortest) path length. In the unweighted case, the length of a path is simply the number of edges it consists of. In the weighted case, it is the sum of the weights of these edges. This is precisely how igraph uses edge weights for betweenness calculations. Betweenness is, roughly speaking, the number of shortest paths passing through a vertex (or edge). High edge weights make paths longer, thus high weight edges are less likely to appear in the paths that are the shortest. This has hopefully answered your question. On 6 April 2018 at 18:06, joice de faria poloni <joicefpol...@gmail.com> wrote: > Dear igraph users, > > I'm working with gene correlation networks, where each vertex represents a > gene and each edge represents an expression correlation among genes. > In this sense, I was planning to use the igraph package to calculate network > centralities, specifically betweenness and edge betweenness. > However, I have a question: When I use the command "edge_betweenness" or > "betweenness", the weight of the edges will be considered as costs or > strengths? If they are considered as costs, can I use a command to calculate > betweenness as a strength? > > Thank you for your assistance regarding in this matter. > > > _______________________________________________ > igraph-help mailing list > igraph-help@nongnu.org > https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/igraph-help > _______________________________________________ igraph-help mailing list igraph-help@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/igraph-help
