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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2018 Jun 22.
Published in final edited form as: Vaccine. 2017 May 27;35(29):3621–3638. doi: 10.1016/j.vaccine.2017.05.052

Table 2. Summary of measures for article text networks and sentiment group networks.

The table describes network characteristics of extracted web documents; joint semantic networks of positive, negative, and neutral vaccine sentiment; and the corresponding greatest connected component. Measures describe network size, density, and average centrality.

Vaccine sentiment Positive Negative Neutral

Document text networks
Number of documents (Total=50) 23 documents 21 documents 6 documents
Average number of nodes (per document) 53.1 nodes 90.9 nodes 43.8 nodes
Average number of edges (per document) 49 edges 90.7 edges 39.7 edges
Average degree (per document) 1.9 1.98 1.8

Vaccine sentiment networks
Average degree 3.356 2.95 2.348
Number of connected components 21 49 12

Greatest component subgraph
Nodes / Total network nodes 585 / 652 nodes 1140 / 1257 nodes 171 / 201 nodes
Edges / Total network edges 1042 / 1094 edges 1783 / 1854 edges 216 / 236 edges
Average degree 3.562 3.128 2.526
Diameter 12 13 17
Density 0.0061 0.0027 0.0149
Number of communities 21 31 10
Average path length 4.492 4.77 6.78
Average degree centrality 0.0061 0.0027 0.0149
Average betweenness centrality 0.006 0.0033 0.0342
Average closeness centrality 0.2292 0.2161 0.1533
Average node connectivity 1.3117 1.1835 1.035
Average clustering coefficient 0.196 0.14 0.131