  The aim of this paper is to study some parameters of simple graphs related
with the degree of the vertices. So, our main tool is the $n\times n$ matrix
${\cal A}$ whose ($i,j$)-entry is $$ a_{ij}= \left\lbrace \begin{array}{ll}
  \frac{1}{\sqrt{\delta_i\delta_j}} & {\rm if }\quad v_i\sim v_j ;
  \\ 0 & {\rm otherwise,} \end{array}
  \right. $$ where $\delta_i$ denotes the degree of the vertex $v_i$. We study
the Randi\'{c} index and some interesting particular cases of conditional
excess, conditional Wiener index, and conditional diameter. In particular,
using the matrix ${\cal A}$ or its eigenvalues, we obtain tight bounds on the
studied parameters.
