Degree Power Law

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Degree Power Law This metric is implemented in 0.7. This metric is not implemented in 0.8. You can request this as a Blueprint. Node metric

Objective

It measures how closely the degree distribution of a network follows a power-law scale.

Explanation

An alpha value between 2 and 3 implies a power law.

Source code

See org.gephi.statistics.plugin.DegreeDistribution.java.

Acknowledgements

This code was implemented by Patrick McSweeney.

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