[SOLVED] Degree Distribution Metric Report

[masp]

As a new member I want first to give my best regards to everybody.

Hi... I under if some one can help me to interpret the Degree Distribution Metric Report. What can it be concluded about this result?

Network Revision Number:
(191, 1111)

Parameters:
Network Interpretation: undirected

Results:
In-Degree Power Law: -0.0
Power: -2.778288556564374

Attached pdf with the graphic.

Thank you
Miguel Pereira
Ph.D. candidate
Personal webpage: http://home.cea.uevora.pt/~masp/index.html
Research: http://www.catedra.uevora.pt/rui-nabeir ... ui_nabeiro

[masp]

UPS... not a PDF ... but a jpg

[pjmcswee]

Miguel Pereira,
Welcome to Gephi Miguel. This test indicates whether or not the network in question is so called: "scale-free." In practice, a power-law between: -2 and -3, indicates a scale-free network.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scale-free_network

Hope this helps,
~Patrick

[masp]

I was not so sure about the evidence of a scale-free network. Thank you for the help Patrick.
Miguel Pereira

[ronaldomenezes]

I'd like to use this example because I don't understand in gephi what the axis mean. I have done a few tests and although the distribution is correct (and so is the degree of the power law) I can't find why the axis don't show k, degree, and p(k), probability of degree k. For instance, in an example I have my no degrees go all the way to 70 but the degree axis on gephi goes to 4 only. Why? I know the metric report is already a log-log plot.

Can anyone tell me what the axis are? Thanks

[ronaldomenezes]

I'd like to use this example because I don't understand in gephi what the axis mean. I have done a few tests and although the distribution is correct (and so is the degree of the power law) I can't find why the axis don't show k, degree, and p(k), probability of degree k. For instance, in an example I have my no degrees go all the way to 70 but the degree axis on gephi goes to 4 only. Why? I know the metric report is already a log-log plot.

Can anyone tell me what the axis are? Thanks

Trying again. Anyone has an explanation of the above?

[admin]

Hi,

The reports have been changed recently so you won't have any problem in the next version, coming out April 5! See the release notes.

Note that the Degree Power Law metric has just been removed as it not precise enough to draw a conclusion.

[ronaldomenezes]

Hi,

The reports have been changed recently so you won't have any problem in the next version, coming out April 5! See the release notes.

Note that the Degree Power Law metric has just been removed as it not precise enough to draw a conclusion.

I've noticed it!! It have a distribution in which the exponent of the degree distribution is know to be 1.20 approximately and gephi is telling me it's 6.9!

Looking forward to the update. thanks

[mvandoorn]

Hi,

I am pretty new to all of this so please forgive me if the answer to this should be obvious. I would like to know the raw numbers of the degree frequency distribution. Does Gephi provide this as output anywhere?
Thanks!
-Marianne