Table 1 Statistics computed on the projected graphs of investors and firms.
From: Venture capital investments through the lens of network and functional data analysis
Covariate | Network interpretation | Note |
|---|---|---|
Average neighbor degree | Affinity between neighbor nodes | |
Betweenness centrality | Role within flow of information | |
Closeness centrality | Spreading power (shortest average distance from all other nodes) | |
Clustering coefficient | Tight community | |
Core number | Importance within cluster | Computed only for firms |
Degree centrality | Influence | |
Eigenvector centrality | Influence | |
Harmonic centrality (Marchiori and Latora 2000) | Spreading power | |
Newman betweenness centrality (Newman 2005) | Role within flow of information | |
Number of investors | Computed only for firms | |
PageRank (Page et al. 1999) | Influence | |
VoteRank (Zhang et al. 2016) | Best spreading ability |