All materials plus more exercises are also available in this Dropbox folder.

• Session 1 (09:30 – 11:30):
  • Introduction & network science
  • Focus on the qgraph R package
• Session 2 (13:00 – 14:30):
  • Network estimation & sensitivity analyses
  • Focus on the bootnet R package
• Session 3 (15:00 – 16:30)
  • Network psychometrics
  • Focus on the psychonetrics R package
  • The start of this session will be reserved for more practical time with bootnet

Session 1: Introduction & Network Science

• Taught by: Adela Isvoranu
• Lecture Slides
• Practical Exercises – Data to be used in the practical
• Practical Solutions
• Drawing Networks using qgraph – Help file

Session 2: Network estimation & Sensitivity Analysis

• Taught by: Sacha Epskamp
• Lecture Slides
• Practical Exercises – Data to be used in the practical
• Practical Solutions

Session 3: Network Psychometrics

• Taught by: Sacha Epskamp
• Lecture Slides
• Demonstration

Further literature and references

These links give a comprehensive overview of the materials covered in the workshop.

• R introduction lecture
• Network analysis cookbook
• Network Psychometrics dissertation
• Not a network psychometrics handbook
• Borsboom, D. (2017). A network theory of mental disorders. World Psychiatry, 16, 5–13.
• Epskamp, S., Kruis, J., & Marsman, M. (2017). Estimating psychopathological networks: be careful what you wish for. PlosOne  12(6): e0179891.
• Fried, E. I., van Borkulo, C. D., Cramer, A. O. J., Lynn, B., Schoevers, R. A., Borsboom, D. (2016). Mental disorders as networks of problems: a review of recent insights. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology.
• Opsahl, T., Agneessens, F., & Skvoretz, J. (2010). Node centrality in weighted networks: Generalizing degree and shortest paths. Social networks, 32(3), 245-251.
• Isvoranu, A. M., Boyette, L.L., Guloksuz, S., Borsboom, D. (2017). Network Models of Psychosis. Upcoming book chapter in Dimension of Psychosis. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press.
• Airbnb Network
• Collaborator Network
• Supplementary Materials of Epskamp, S., Borsboom, D. & Fried, E.I. Estimating Psychological Networks and their Accuracy: A Tutorial Paper. (2017). Behavior Research Methods.
  Epskamp, S., & Fried, E. I. (2017). A Tutorial on Regularized Partial Correlation Networks.
• Supplementary materials of van Borkulo, C. D., Borsboom, D., Epskamp, S., Blanken, T. F., Boschloo, L., Schoevers, R. A., & Waldorp, L. J. (2014). A new method for constructing networks from binary data. Scientific Reports, 4, 5918.
• van Borkulo, C. D., Borsboom, D., Epskamp, S., Blanken, T. F., Boschloo, L., Schoevers, R. A., & Waldorp, L. J. (2014). A new method for constructing networks from binary data. Scientific Reports, 4, 5918.
• Epskamp, S., Borsboom, D. & Fried, E.I. (2017). Estimating psychological networks and their accuracy: a tutorial paper. Behavior Research Methods.doi:10.3758/s13428-017-0862-1
• Fried, E. I. & Cramer, A. O. J. (2017). Moving forward: challenges and directions for psychopathological network theory and methodology. Perspectives on Psychological Science.

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JASP

Jasp is an open-source and free point and click interface for performing state of the art statistical analyses, developed at the University of Amsterdam. The great team of Jasp has recently implemented the first version of a network module! Feel free to try out the JASP 0.11.1 version, and let us know what you think!

• Windows & Mac: https://jasp-stats.org/download/
• Example data file
• Example JASP save file