Between-group differences (HC vs. ALL) in small-world parameters.

<p>The 95% confidence intervals and between-group differences in A) normalized clustering (ΔCC_TOP, ΔCC_HQS, ΔCC_COR), B) normalized path length (ΔCPL_TOP, ΔCPL_HQS, ΔCPL_COR) and C) small-world index (ΔSW_TOP, ΔSW_QS, ΔSW_COR) as a function of network density for different benchmarking methods. The red circles show the difference between HC vs. ALL networks; the circles falling out of the confidence intervals (blue dashed lines) indicate the densities in which the difference is significant. The positive values indicate HC>ALL and negative values indicate HC