Huh? O.K., he means the protagonist is the character with the smallest average degree of separation from the others, "the center of the network".
The CandidateBacon package provides an easy and efficient method to calculate the average degree of separation (DoS) between pairs of genes to currently available gene networks.
If you are logged into Facebook, the blog post will tell you your average degree of separation "from everyone". The number is an estimate derived from statistical algorithms and not, as it seems, an intrusive estimate of the reach of your friends and family.
In our investment bank example, if Andy were connected to a peripheral specialist (who, by definition, is not central to the network and works apart from most colleagues) rather than to a central connector, the average degree of separation would rise in the network.
This suggests that, if there are any structural differences at all between stands, they are likely to be found in descriptors relating more directly to spatiogenetic clustering characteristics (such as the average degree of spatiogenetic separation between individuals and its standard deviation considered in the next section) and, ultimately in the spatiogenetic clustering patterns themselves.
His famous result was that there were, on average, six degrees of separation between any two people.
The reason, Kleinberg says, is the "small world phenomenon" -- the fact that everyone is on average "six degrees of separation" from everyone else -- so counting the number of hops between people doesn't help.
While direct competitors are prohibited to create interlocking directorates, these corporations have on average only four degrees of separation.
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The strong "small world" claim is that everyone is connected by an average of only six degrees of separation.
