This blog post was written by Kees-Jan Kan. The first publications using R package psychonetrics are popping up! In a recent publication and its associated tutorial website, we (Kan, de Jonge, van der Maas, Levine & Epskamp, 2020) illustrate how psychonetrics can be used for both Gaussian graphical modeling (GGM) and latent ... [Read more...]

Psychological Networks Amsterdam Summer School – The online edition From June 29 to July 3, we will host an online edition of the Psychological Networks Amsterdam Summer School! During this week, we will make a video lecture series available together with exercises and solutions, and will be available for assistance throughout the week ... [Read more...]

Version 0.7 of the psychonetrics package is now on CRAN! This version is a major restructure of the package leading to a lot of new functionality as well as much faster computations. In addition, a new pre-print is now online describing meta-analysis procedures now implemented in psychonetrics. Free course on Structural ... [Read more...]

This post was written by Sacha Epskamp. Tomorrow our biannual network school will start again (see here for last year’s materials), which is also the time I update all software packages on CRAN. Most notably, I have updated bootnet to version 1.3 and psychonetrics to version 0.5. Given that it is ... [Read more...]

(featuring missing data analysis) Simulation studies are absolutely vital for methodological work to be validated and tested in multiple settings. One simulation study is good, but more simulation studies are always better. In the context of network estimation for example, simulation studies are currently the only way to go in ... [Read more...]

About twenty years ago, I was a young teenager when my two-year older brother introduced me to the increasingly popular card game Magic the Gathering (MTG). We both liked the game a lot and started to collect cards, making sure that all the blue cards would go to my brother ... [Read more...]