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If nodelist is None, then the ordering is produced by G.nodes().</p> </div></blockquote> <p><strong>weight</strong> : string or None, optional (default=’weight’)</p> <blockquote> <div><p>The edge data key used to compute each value in the matrix. If None, then each edge has weight 1.</p> </div></blockquote> <p><strong>walk_type</strong> : string or None, optional (default=None)</p> <blockquote> <div><p>If None, <span class="math">P</span> is selected depending on the properties of the graph. Otherwise is one of ‘random’, ‘lazy’, or ‘pagerank’</p> </div></blockquote> <p><strong>alpha</strong> : real</p> <blockquote> <div><p>(1 - alpha) is the teleportation probability used with pagerank</p> </div></blockquote> </td> </tr> <tr class="field-even field"><th class="field-name">Returns :</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><strong>L</strong> : NumPy array</p> <blockquote> <div><p>Normalized Laplacian of G.</p> </div></blockquote> </td> </tr> <tr class="field-odd field"><th class="field-name">Raises :</th><td class="field-body"><p class="first"><strong>NetworkXError</strong> :</p> <blockquote> <div><p>If NumPy cannot be imported</p> </div></blockquote> <p><strong>NetworkXNotImplemnted</strong> :</p> <blockquote class="last"> <div><p>If G is not a DiGraph</p> </div></blockquote> </td> </tr> </tbody> </table> <div class="admonition-see-also admonition seealso"> <p class="first admonition-title">See also</p> <p class="last"><a class="reference internal" href="networkx.linalg.laplacianmatrix.laplacian_matrix.html#networkx.linalg.laplacianmatrix.laplacian_matrix" title="networkx.linalg.laplacianmatrix.laplacian_matrix"><tt class="xref py py-obj docutils literal"><span class="pre">laplacian_matrix</span></tt></a></p> </div> <p class="rubric">Notes</p> <p>Only implemented for DiGraphs</p> <p class="rubric">References</p> <table class="docutils citation" frame="void" id="r293" rules="none"> <colgroup><col class="label" /><col /></colgroup> <tbody valign="top"> <tr><td class="label"><a class="fn-backref" href="#id1">[R293]</a></td><td>Fan Chung (2005). Laplacians and the Cheeger inequality for directed graphs. 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