Time ordered transitivity effect?

[marion-hoffman]

Hello guys,

I was wondering about transitivity...
Right now I believe we are calculating transitivity using the network of previous interactions, independent of the order in time of these interactions (correct me if I'm wrong, I mighr have missed some recent developments). As in, if we are looking at a potential event at time t from i to j, we do consider that it creates a transitive path if i sent an event to k after k sent one to j (or the other way around).
However, I noticed in the recent preprint of Arena, Mulder and Leenders from 2021 that they use a transitivity effect that takes time order into account, and only consider the cases where first i sends an event to k and then k sends an event to j.
Maybe in some cases, this specification could follow more closely the theoretical mechanism that we want to model, or not. Anyhow, this is food for thought. We could think of implementing an ordered transitivity effect if it is useful to some of us.

Cheerio
Marion