Table 3.

Comparison of network theory measures from binary networks using an absolute threshold.

	Preterm	Term	P-value
Threshold T=0.05
Normalized Clustering Coefficient (C/C_random)	1.09±0.08	1.15±0.07	0.03
Normalized Characteristic Path Length (L/L_random)	1.00±0.00	1.00±0.00	0.94
Assortivity (R)	0.07±0.05	0.17±0.11	<0.01
Modularity (Q)	0.13±0.06	0.17±0.04	0.02
Threshold T=0.15
Normalized Clustering Coefficient (C/C_random)	1.25±0.17	1.31±0.13	0.24
Normalized Characteristic Path Length (L/L_random)	1.00±0.01	1.01±0.01	0.11
Assortivity (R)	0.13±0.05	0.25±0.13	<0.01
Modularity (Q)	0.19±0.07	0.22±0.05	0.13

P values calculated using 2 tail permutation testing with 10,000 permutations. Standard deviation with value of 0.00 have values below two decimal points and are rounded down for display.