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This is a note to introduce a new measure of a kind of structural centrality called pair-dependency. Pair-dependency explicates the centrality-related notion of the gatekeeper. Moreover, it turns out to be a fundamental structural property of communication networks that provides the basis for the derivation of two standard measures of structural centrality.
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Freeman, L.C. The gatekeeper, pair-dependency and structural centrality. Qual Quant 14, 585–592 (1980). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00184720
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