multiplex (version 1.5)

signed: Signed Network

Description

Construct the signed network of a system of contrasting relations

Usage

signed(P, N = NULL, labels = NULL)

Arguments

P

array with the positive ties and possible with negative ties (see Details)

N

(optional) array with the negative ties

labels

(optional) labels for the signed matrix

Value

• An object of `Signed' class with items:
• val
  the valences in the signed matrix
• s
  the signed matrix

Details

This function coerce a array(s) to become a `Signed' object. Positive ties are always in the first argument, and in case that this array has three dimensions, then the second dimension is considered as the negative ties, provided that N is NULL. If ambivalent ties are present in the structure then the signed matrix represent positive, negative, ambivalent, and null ties as p, n, a, and o respectively; otherwise the values are 1, -1, and 0.

References

Doreian, P., V. Batagelj and A. Ferligoj Generalized Blockmodeling. Cambridge University Press. 2004.

See Also

semiring

Examples

## Load the data
data("incubA")

## Make the signed matrix with two types of relations
signed(incubA)