A Family of new measures of point and graph centrality based on early intuitions of Bavelas (1948) is introduced. These measures define centrality in terms of the degree to which a point falls on the shortest path between others and therefore has a potential for control of communication. They may be used to index centrality in any large or small network of symmetrical relations, whether connected or unconnected.
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%A Freeman, Linton C.
%D 1977
%I American Sociological Association
%J Sociometry
%K networks betweenness
%N 1
%P 35--41
%R 10.2307/3033543
%T A Set of Measures of Centrality Based on Betweenness
%U http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/3033543
%V 40
%X A Family of new measures of point and graph centrality based on early intuitions of Bavelas (1948) is introduced. These measures define centrality in terms of the degree to which a point falls on the shortest path between others and therefore has a potential for control of communication. They may be used to index centrality in any large or small network of symmetrical relations, whether connected or unconnected.
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title = {{A Set of Measures of Centrality Based on Betweenness}},
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