In recent years, network analysis has been applied to identify and analyse patterns of
statistical association in multivariate psychological data. In these approaches, network nodes …

… symptoms as measurements of a latent disorder (as is depicted in Figure 1; see Table 1
for the accompanying legend), symptoms are viewed as part of a causal system (Borsboom …

The usage of psychological networks that conceptualize behavior as a complex interplay of
psychological and other components has gained increasing popularity in various research …

Transparency, openness, and reproducibility are readily recognized as vital features of science
( 1 , 2 ). When asked, most scientists embrace these features as disciplinary norms and …

We present the qgraph package for R, which provides an interface to visualize data through
network modeling techniques. For instance, a correlation matrix can be represented as a …

This article advances a simple conception of test validity: A test is valid for measuring an
attribute if (a) the attribute exists and (b) variations in the attribute causally produce variation in …

In recent years, the network approach to psychopathology has been advanced as an alternative
way of conceptualizing mental disorders. In this approach, mental disorders arise from …

This article examines the theoretical status of latent variables as used in modern test theory
models. First, it is argued that a consistent interpretation of such models requires a realist …

… D. student in the Department of Psychology at the University of Amsterdam. She works on …
perspective to conceptualize mental disorders (see also Borsboom 2008). To see this, it is …

… Thus, the change from prior odds p(H0)/p(H1) to posterior odds p(H0|D)/p(H1|D) brought
about by the data is given by the ratio of p(D|H0)/p(D|H1), a quantity known as the Bayes factor (…