Fixed-margin sampling & networks: New commentary on network replicability

This guest blog post was written by Sacha Epskamp, Assistant Professor at the University of Amsterdam. It does not necessarily reflect the opinions of other authors on the paper introduced below.   The methodological journal Multivariate Behavioral Research just published our latest contribution to the debate surrounding the replicability of …

Bootstrapping edges after regularization: clarifications & tutorial

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I have read the following statement numerous times in the last months: “If the 95% boostrapped CI of an edge weight in a network contains zero, the edge cannot be differentiated from zero”. This is incorrect in case of regularized partial correlation networks, and I thought I would write this …

FAQ on network stability, part II: Why is my network unstable?

In a previous tutorial blog post, I summarized the bootstrapping routine developed by Sacha Epskamp and me that we recommend for testing the stability / accuracy / precision of estimated network models and parameters. This matters a great deal and should be considered a standard step in every empirical network …