The NETWORK Procedure

calculates information about biconnected components. You can use this option only for an undirected graph.

calculates information about clustering coefficients. You can use this option only for an undirected graph.

calculates information about connected components.

calculates information about the approximate diameter and specifies which type of calculation to perform. Use this option when calculating the exact diameter (by calculating all shortest paths) is too computationally expensive. You can specify the following values:

If the input graph does not contain weights, then DIAMETERAPPROX=WEIGHT and DIAMETERAPPROX=UNWEIGHT both produce the same results (if you use 1.0 for each link weight). This option works only for undirected graphs.

includes only finite values when calculating descriptive statistics that are related to shortest paths (eccentricity, diameter, and so on).

specifies the output data table to contain the summary results. CAS-libref.data-table is a two-level name, where CAS-libref refers to the caslib and session identifier, and data-table specifies the name of the output data table. For more information about this two-level name, see the section Using CAS Sessions and CAS Engine Librefs in Chapter 1, Introduction.

calculates information about shortest paths and specifies which type of calculation to perform. You can specify the following values:

If the input graph does not contain weights, then SHORTESTPATH=WEIGHT and SHORTESTPATH=UNWEIGHT both produce the same results (if you use 1.0 for each link weight).