Table 4.

Comparison of network theory measures from binary networks using a proportional threshold.

	Preterm	Term	P-value
Threshold T=50%
Normalized Clustering Coefficient (C/C_random)	1.18±0.06	1.21±0.06	0.14
Normalized Characteristic Path Length (L/L_random)	1.00±0.01	1.00±0.00	0.93
Assortivity (R)	0.12±0.05	0.21±0.12	0.01
Modularity (Q)	0.17±0.04	0.19±0.03	0.08
Threshold T=75%
Normalized Clustering Coefficient (C/C_random)	1.05±0.17	1.10±0.13	0.02
Normalized Characteristic Path Length (L/L_random)	1.00±0.01	1.00±0.01	0.91
Assortivity (R)	0.04±0.04	0.12±0.10	<0.01
Modularity (Q)	0.10±0.04	0.14±0.04	0.01

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