[Article] "The Strange Quest to Crack the Voynich Code"

[Alin_J]

Another puzzling thing: Amancio et. al measured a lower C (and C*) for the original text than for its scrambled versions: their normalized values are <1.  Cardenas' plot shows that C is higher for the original than for scrambled versions. For what is worth, when I tried replicating Cardenas' experiments I found something similar to what reported by Amancio.

Marco,

The Amancio study seem to make use of the "global" clustering coefficient while Cardenas et al. use the "mean" or average clustering coefficient. I have no in-depth knowledge of this, but the global clustering coefficient is the number of closed triplets divided by the total number triplets in a network (or text), while the average is calculated from the number of closed triplets between a node and its neighbors divided by the number of possible connections between the neighbors (average of all nodes or words). So they are different.