paper

A note on (matricial and fast) ways to compute Burt's structural holes

arXiv:2102.05114

Abstract

In this note I derive simple formulas based on the adjacency matrix of a network to compute measures associated with Ronald S. Burt's structural holes (effective size, redundancy, local constraint and constraint). This can help to interpret these measures and also to define naive algorithms for their computation based on matrix operations.

8 pages, 3 figures