Network analysis of multivariate data in psychological science

🤖 Plain-English Summary

In recent years, network analysis has been applied to identify and analyse patterns of statistical association in multivariate psychological data. Network analysis allows the investigation of complex patterns and relationships by examining nodes and the edges connecting them.

🔑 Key Findings

• In these approaches, network nodes represent variables in a data set, and edges represent pairwise conditional associations between variables in the data, while conditioning on the remaining variables.
• This Primer provides an anatomy of these techniques, describes the current state of the art and discusses open problems.
• We identify relevant data structures in which network analysis may be applied: cross-sectional data, repeated measures and intensive longitudinal data.

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