Notes:

Release Name: GraphVar_beta_v_0.62 DynamicGraphVar

Notes:
UPDATES GraphVar beta 0.62

1. Added two NEW "dynamic" graph measures!
- nodal flexibility and nodal promiscuity coefficient which are based on changing community assignments in an ordered multislice matrix (as in Braun et al., 2015: Dynamic reconfiguration of frontal brain networks during executive cognition in humans)
2. Added new "regular" graph metrics:
- global cost-efficiency (as in Bassett et al.,2009): Cognitive fitness of cost-efficient brain functional networks, PNAS.
- small-world propensity (unbiased assessment of small-world structure in networks of varying densities) -> developed by Muldoon, Bridgeford and Bassett (http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.02194)
3. Finally, you can do directed analyses (graph metrics and raw matrix calculations) if you input e.g. directed granger causality matrices!
4. Added "CheckFrag": will check if network fragmentation with respect to the settings in your network construction occur
5. GraphVar now saves more output files when doing sliding window analyses (not only the dynamic summary measure as before) and will also save all results when only "calculate and Export" for further usage.
Files in your interim results folder are now (depending on what computations you do here with clustering_coeff as example):
- clustering_coef_bu_4.9_1.mat: dynamic summary measure (e.g. variance) of clustering_coef_bu across windows for each node on threshold 0.49 for all subjects
- clustering_coef_bu_4.9_1per_SW.mat: the (normalized) clustering_coef_bu for each node in each of the sliding windows on threshold 0.49 for all subjects
- clustering_coef_bu_4.9_1-rand1.mat: dynamic summary measure (e.g. variance) of clustering_coef_bu across windows for each node in the first random network on threshold 0.49 for all subjects
- clustering_coef_bu_4.9_1-rand_per_SW.mat: the clustering_coef_bu for each node in each random network in each of the sliding windows on threshold 0.49 for all subjects (i.e., cell comprised of: subjects x random networks x sliding windows)
6. Changed the normalization procedure for dynamic summary measures (this does not include "nodal flexibility/promiscuity":
- OLD normalization procedure: the dynamic summary measure of the orig. data was devided by the mean of the dynamic summary measure of the random data (there was a lot of information loss)
- NOW: first, per sliding window graph metrics are normalized as usual by division of the mean of the same graph metric derived in random networks in the same sliding window. Second, the dynamic summary measure is calculated across sliding windows of the beforehand normalized graph metrics.


Changes:
UPDATES GraphVar beta 0.62

1. Added two NEW "dynamic" graph measures!
- nodal flexibility and nodal promiscuity coefficient which are based on changing community assignments in an ordered multislice matrix (as in Braun et al., 2015: Dynamic reconfiguration of frontal brain networks during executive cognition in humans)
2. Added new "regular" graph metrics:
- global cost-efficiency (as in Bassett et al.,2009): Cognitive fitness of cost-efficient brain functional networks, PNAS.
- small-world propensity (unbiased assessment of small-world structure in networks of varying densities) -> developed by Muldoon, Bridgeford and Bassett (http://arxiv.org/abs/1505.02194)
3. Finally, you can do directed analyses (graph metrics and raw matrix calculations) if you input e.g. directed granger causality matrices!
4. Added "CheckFrag": will check if network fragmentation with respect to the settings in your network construction occur
5. GraphVar now saves more output files when doing sliding window analyses (not only the dynamic summary measure as before) and will also save all results when only "calculate and Export" for further usage.
Files in your interim results folder are now (depending on what computations you do here with clustering_coeff as example):
- clustering_coef_bu_4.9_1.mat: dynamic summary measure (e.g. variance) of clustering_coef_bu across windows for each node on threshold 0.49 for all subjects
- clustering_coef_bu_4.9_1per_SW.mat: the (normalized) clustering_coef_bu for each node in each of the sliding windows on threshold 0.49 for all subjects
- clustering_coef_bu_4.9_1-rand1.mat: dynamic summary measure (e.g. variance) of clustering_coef_bu across windows for each node in the first random network on threshold 0.49 for all subjects
- clustering_coef_bu_4.9_1-rand_per_SW.mat: the clustering_coef_bu for each node in each random network in each of the sliding windows on threshold 0.49 for all subjects (i.e., cell comprised of: subjects x random networks x sliding windows)
6. Changed the normalization procedure for dynamic summary measures (this does not include "nodal flexibility/promiscuity":
- OLD normalization procedure: the dynamic summary measure of the orig. data was devided by the mean of the dynamic summary measure of the random data (there was a lot of information loss)
- NOW: first, per sliding window graph metrics are normalized as usual by division of the mean of the same graph metric derived in random networks in the same sliding window. Second, the dynamic summary measure is calculated across sliding windows of the beforehand normalized graph metrics.