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. 2018 Apr 23;20:318–326. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2018.04.021

Table 2.

Global metrics (the area under curve of each metric with sparsity threshold ranging from 0.06 to 0.3) of network topological analysis among three groups.

A. No suicide
N = 28
(mean ± SD)
B. Suicide ideation N = 29
(mean ± SD)
C. Suicide attempt N = 23
(mean ± SD)
One-way ANOVA
p value
Post hoc pairwise comparison p value
A vs B B vs C A vs C
Short characteristic path length L 17.2 ± 1.33 17.5 ± 1.45 16.4 ± 1.00 0.016 1.00 0.013 0.15
Normalized L, λ 0.28 ± 0.008 0.29 ± 0.006 0.28 ± 0.008 0.53 1.00 0.91 1.00
Clustering coefficient C 0.015 ± 0.002 0.015 ± 0.002 0.014 ± 0.002 0.27 1.00 0.50 0.43
Normalized C, γ 0.76 ± 0.030 0.75 ± 0.037 0.75 ± 0.029 0.56 1.00 1.00 0.95
Global efficiency (×10−3) 3.37 ± 0.27 3.31 ± 0.28 3.52 ± 0.22 0.021 1.00 0.02 0.16
Local efficiency (×10−3) 4.78 ± 0.40 4.70 ± 0.37 4.94 ± 0.36 0.08 1.00 0.08 0.40
Mean weighted degree 0.067 ± 0.005 0.066 ± 0.005 0.070 ± 0.004 0.024 1.00 0.026 0.117

Bolded values indicate significance at p < 0.05

Permutation correction for multiple testing p < 0.05.

Post hoc Bonferroni analysis.