[statnet_help] Temporal centrality metrics

[Skye Bender-deMoll via statnet_help]

Hi Prof Rudolf,

The tsna package does calculate some temporal network statistics 
directly 
(https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/tsna/vignettes/tsna_vignette.html#temporal-paths-and-metrics) 
without using static network slices. However, although it can calculate 
the 'earliest forward paths' analogous to the shortest paths that would 
be used to compute  temporal betweeness and centrality as in 
https://people.ece.ubc.ca/hyoung/publication/TemporalCentrality_PRE.pdf, 
I don't believe those measures are directly implemented yet.

best,
  -skye


On 2/12/25 7:35 AM, Volker Rudolf via statnet_help wrote:

> Hi,

> 

> I'm Volker Rudolf, a Professor in Ecology (so not a network scientist

> but trying to learn more...) I'm hoping to use your package(s) to

> analyze the structure of time-ordered ecological networks. Specifically

> I'm trying to calculate two centrality statistics : temporal betweenness

> and closeness centrality of nodes (following Kim & Anderson 2012). Note

> that I do not want to calculate static metrics at multiple time points,

> which is what the tutorials on tsna package show. I could not find a

> function that seems to be doing that but wondering if (a) I just missed

> it, and (b) if not, if folks have a code to calculate those metrics

> which they are willing to share.