Application of statistical measures

In this final section of the chapter, we're going to apply many of the statistics we've just reviewed to our school classroom data and begin to gain a greater understanding of the network beyond our earlier visual assessments. Even better, we will use the power of filtering in tandem with the graph statistics to begin using Gephi in an even more sophisticated fashion. We'll start this section with some fairly straightforward examples, and then move on to more complex analysis using the available filtering options.

Basic statistical applications

We're going to work once again with the primary school dataset as we will illustrate the practical application of many of these statistics. We'll proceed in the following ...

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