Tag: criticism

New papers

Network models do not replicate … not.

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When I see limitations in published network papers that I find sufficiently relevant to address, I discuss the papers here, and try to provide ways forward. For instance, Madhoo & Levine (2016) drew inferences from visually inspecting their networks, which inspired me to write a tutorial blog post on the …

New papers

New paper: differential variability of variables drives network structure

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In psychopathological networks, we often model ordinal items (problems or symptoms) that are not normally distributed, especially in general population samples. But if a variable shows a floor effect, meaning that the mean is close to 0, it often has a small variance, which in turn means that the variable …

Dissertation

Bringmann’s dissertation on dynamical networks in psychology

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You’ve probably heard about Laura Bringmann: among other things, she developed the multilevel extension of the vector autoregressive network model many of us are using today, and was the first to apply it to psychopathological data (e.g., 1, 2). Laura defended her PhD “Dynamical networks in psychology: More than a …