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gdist.plotdiff {sna} | R Documentation

## Plot Differences in Graph-level Statistics Against Inter-graph Distances

### Description

For a given graph set, `gdist.plotdiff` plots the distances between graphs against their distances (or differences) on a set of graph-level measures.

### Usage

    gdist.plotdiff(d, meas, method="manhattan", jitter=TRUE,
        xlab="Inter-Graph Distance", ylab="Measure Distance",
        lm.line=FALSE, ...)

### Arguments

`d` | A matrix containing the inter-graph distances
`meas` | An n x m matrix containing the graph-level indices; rows of this matrix must correspond to graphs, and columns to indices
`method` | The distance method used by `dist` to establish differences/distances between graph GLI values. By default, absolute ("manhattan") differences are used.
`jitter` | Should values be jittered prior to display?
`xlab` | A label for the X axis
`ylab` | A label for the Y axis
`lm.line` | Include a least-squares line?
`...` | Additional arguments to `plot`

### Details

`gdist.plotdiff` works by taking the distances between all graphs on `meas` and then plotting these distances against `d` for all pairs of graphs (with, optionally, an added least-squares line for reference value). This can be a useful exploratory tool for relating inter-graph distances (e.g., Hamming distances) to differences on other attributes.

### Value

None

### Note

This function is actually quite generic, and can be used with node-level – or even non-network – data as well.

### Author(s)

Carter T. Butts buttsc@uci.edu

### References

Butts, C.T., and Carley, K.M. (2001). “Multivariate Methods for Interstructural Analysis.” CASOS working paper, Carnegie Mellon University.

### See Also

`gdist.plotstats`, `gclust.boxstats`, `gclust.centralgraph`

### Examples

    #Generate some random graphs with varying densities
    g<-rgraph(10,20,tprob=runif(20,0,1))

    #Find the Hamming distances between graphs
    g.h<-hdist(g)

    #Plot the relationship between distance and differences in density
    gdist.plotdiff(g.h,gden(g),lm.line=TRUE)

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