Social network analysis
Critically outline and assess the following network measures:
a) the clustering coefficient;
b) the average geodesic distance; and
c) the average degree.
By drawing on relevant network theories, conduct a critical and comparative evaluation of the role played by each of the above measures in the following network models:
a) the fully connected network;
b) the Poisson random network;
c) the Barabási-Albert “scale-free” network; and
d) the Watts- Strogatz “small-world” network.
