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You can Use the negative value also for the inference of the outputs of UCINET.

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Dr.Indrajit Mandal, Ph.D. 

Dear Indrajit Mandal,

Thank you very much for your response. However, I think I didn´t express my point properly. My doubt is about centrality scores when applying the index, not the beta parameter. Do larger absolute values of the centrality scores mean more power (B

Dear Amanda Jiménez,

a late answer, but maybe it can still help you or someone else. For the beta Score you have to take positive and negative values into account. Negative values mean less power for these actors, since they are connected to other well connected actors, high positive values are explained by connections to many other actors, which are not well connected overall.

Here an explanation for UCINET:

http://faculty.ucr.edu/~hanneman/nettext/C10_Centrality.html#Bonacich

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