Figure 1
From: Sleep deprivation leads to a loss of functional connectivity in frontal brain regions
Clustering coefficient and path length. The circles represent brain areas (nodes) and the lines between the circles represent the connections between nodes (edges). It takes one step to go from node X to node A, two steps to go from node X to node D etc. The average path length of node X is therefore 1(A) + 1(B) + 1(C) + 2(D) + 3(E) + 2(F) /6 = 1.67. Node X is directly connected to node A, B and C (neighbors) the clustering coefficient (proportion of neighbors of node X that are also connected to each other) is therefore 2/3 = 0.67.