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. 2021 Mar 2;11(3):311. doi: 10.3390/brainsci11030311

Table 2.

List of estimated weighted indicators to determine the characteristics of each network analyzed.

Description Calculations
Functional Integration (FI)
Number of communities Number of independent communities detected in a group of specific ROIs. Estimated maximum number of statistically significant clusters in a random network.
Mean of the path lengths The path length of a node i (Li) is the average number of edges that must be crossed to go from node i to the remaining nodes in the network Li=iϵN(1n1jϵN,jidij)
where N is the total number of nodes in the network, n is the number of nodes involved and dij is the shortest path length between node i and j.
Standard deviation of the path lengths The characteristic path length is a global measure of the network, i.e., there is only one value for the entire network. It consists of the average path length of each node in the network. L=1NiϵNLi
Functional Segregation (FS)
Global clustering coefficient This is the average value of the clustering coefficients, which is the fraction of triangles around a node, and is equivalent to the fraction of neighbors of the node that are neighbors among them. C=Γiki(ki1)
Number of triangles This is the number of connected triangles that can be estimated within a network in Euclidean space. G=(V,E)
An ordered pair in which V is a nonempty set of vertices and E is a set of edges. Where E consists of unordered pairs of vertices such as {x, y} E, then x and y are said to be adjacent.
Other measures
Density The network density (D) is the number of edges in the network in proportion to the total number of possible edges. D=KN(N1)
where K is the number of edges in the network and N is the total number of nodes in the network.
Small world (Watts–Strogatz) Networks that present a higher clustering coefficient than expected by chance and that, in addition, have a characteristic shortest path length. S=CnormLnorm=C/CrandomL/Lrandom
A network is said to represent this type of organization if the calculated index is greater than 1.
Complexity The number of nodes and alternative paths that exist within a specific network