This guest post was written by Giulio Costantini (costantinigiulio@gmail.com) who recently finished his PhD at the University of Milan Bicocca. His blog describes a new tutorial paper that was just published in Personality and Individual Differences (PDF), and follows his earlier 2015 tutorial paper on estimating psychological networks. In a …
The network literature on psychopathology is exploding, which means there are many reviews to be performed. While each paper is different, some common themes have emerged, and because I have been asked on which aspects I focus my reviews and what my current main concerns are, here is a brief …
A new paper by Mohammad Afzali and colleagues was published a few days ago in the Journal of Affective Disorders, entitled “A Network Approach to the Comorbidity between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder and Major Depressive Disorder: the Role of Overlapping Symptoms”. The authors estimate the network structure of 36 symptoms in …
A problem we see in psychological network papers is that authors sometimes over-interpret the visualization of their data. This pertains especially to the layout and node placement of the graph, for instance: do nodes in the networks cluster in certain communities. Below I will discuss this problem in some detail, …
This year, we were invited to give a number of network analysis workshops for psychological data. Most of these I gave together with my fantastic colleagues Marie Deserno and Sacha Epskamp. The majority of the workshops covered network estimation, network inference, and network accuracy for between-subjects cross-sectional networks and time-series …
