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This chapter discusses assortativity, influence, and homophily in social networks. Assortativity refers to the tendency of similar nodes to connect to each other more than dissimilar nodes. Both influence and homophily can lead to assortative networks, but influence means friends become more similar while homophily means similar individuals become friends. The chapter describes how to measure assortativity using modularity, which quantifies the difference between observed and expected assortativity based on
- Author
- Raul Andres Camacho Cruz
- Language
- EN