Abstract

Techniques is a regular column devoted to techniques of data construction, management, interpretation and analysis. Contributions are appreciated. Centrality measures are commonly described as indices of prestige, prominence, importance, and power — the four Ps. However, this sort of interpretation seems inappropriate in the case of sexual networks. In this column, I consider the interpretation of centrality measures in sexual networks, and more generally in the context of any kind of network diffusion. For simplicity, I will assume that the data 1 consist of a discrete symmetric social relation

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