WITSclean

This function takes (import) trade data downloaded from WITS, cleans it and transforms it into a network.
Adding a number of country level attributes to nodes in the network, including: regional partition, GDP, GDP per capita, GDP growth and FDI.

Functions to clean and process international trade data into an international trade network (ITN) are provided. It then provides a set a functions to undertake analysis and plots of the ITN (extract the backbone, centrality, blockmodels, clustering). Examining the key players in the ITN and regional trade patterns.

Matthew Smith

ITNr

Analysis of the International Trade Network

WITSclean function

<dl><dt>CSVfile</dt>
<dd>WITS csv file</dd>
<dt>YEAR</dt>
<dd>Year</dd>
<dt>threshold</dt>
<dd>Apply a threshold - TRUE, Extract the backbone - FALSE</dd>
<dt>cutoff</dt>
<dd>Threshold - cutoff level, Backbone - significance level</dd></dl>

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WITS data clean — WITSclean

<dl>

<dt>CSVfile</dt>
<dd>WITS csv file</dd>


<dt>YEAR</dt>
<dd>Year</dd>


<dt>threshold</dt>
<dd>Apply a threshold - TRUE, Extract the backbone - FALSE</dd>


<dt>cutoff</dt>
<dd>Threshold - cutoff level, Backbone - significance level</dd>

</dl>

WITSclean: WITS data clean

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