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. 2011 Mar 15;6(3):e17817. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0017817

Figure 1. An illustrative matrix representation of an ideal corporative ranking structure.

Figure 1

Panel (a) depicts a hierarchy of four tiers with eight groups. Groups on the same tier have the same rank, Panel (b) shows an upper-triangular matrix consisting mostly of 1 s, with several rectangular patches consisting of 0 s (represented by dots), representing the presence or absence of pairwise dominance relationships among the members of the eight groups.