All slides and assignments are available in this Dropbox folder!

Try the JASP network module!

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

General information

• Location: Nieuwe Achtergracht 129-B, Amsterdam
  • Room 2.01
• email: psynetsummerschool@gmail.com
• Program
• Booklet
• Interactive map with workshop locations and neighborhood tips
  • To reach the workshop site, take the metro to “Weesperplein” or tram 7, 9 or 10.

Literature and references

These links are not mandatory to read but give a comprehensive overview of the materials covered throughout the week.

• Network analysis cookbook
• Network Psychometrics Dissertation
• Not a network psychometrics handbook

Day 1: Monday, August 27

In the morning, we will guide participants from Kriterion to the workshop location at 08:45.

Morning session: Introduction 1: Complexity & R

• Lecturer: Han van der Maas
• Literature
  • Van Der Maas, H. L., Dolan, C. V., Grasman, R. P., Wicherts, J. M., Huizenga, H. M., & Raijmakers, M. E. (2006). A dynamical model of general intelligence: the positive manifold of intelligence by mutualism. Psychological review, 113(4), 842.
  • Borsboom, D. (2017). A network theory of mental disorders. World Psychiatry, 16, 5–13.
  • A (very) short introduction to R
  • Beginners guide to R
• Practice
  • Datacamp
  • Try R

Afternoon session: Introduction 2: Network Science

• Lecturer: Adela Isvoranu
• Literature
  • Opsahl, T., Agneessens, F., & Skvoretz, J. (2010). Node centrality in weighted networks: Generalizing degree and shortest paths. Social networks, 32(3), 245-251.

Introduction drinks

After the first day of the workshop, we will have introduction drinks in CREA.

Day 2: Tuesday, August 28

Morning session: Theory 1: Causality & Philosophy of Science

• Lecturer: Riet van Bork
• Literature
  • Judea Pearl – Causality
  • Pearl introduction
  • Pearl Epilogue
  • D-separation

Afternoon session: Theory 2: The Ising Model & Statistical Mechanics

• Lecturer: Jonas Dalege
• Literature
  • Dalege, J., Borsboom, D., van Harreveld, F., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (in press). The Attitudinal Entropy (AE) framework as a general theory of individual attitudes. Psychological Inquiry.
  • Dalege, J., Borsboom, D., van Harreveld, F., & van der Maas, H. L. J. (2017). Network analysis on attitudes: A brief tutorial. Social Psychological and Personality Science, 8, 528-537.
  • Epskamp, S., Maris, G. K., Waldorp, L. J., & Borsboom, D. (2016). Network psychometrics. arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.02818.

Day 3: Wednesday, August 29

Morning session: Estimation 1: Markov Random Fields & Directed Acyclic Graphs

• Lecturer: Sacha Epskamp
• Literature
  • Epskamp, S., Maris, G., Waldorp, L. J., & Borsboom, D. (2018). Network Psychometrics. To appear in: Irwing, P., Hughes, D., & Booth, T. (Eds.), The Wiley Handbook of Psychometric Testing, 2 Volume Set: A Multidisciplinary Reference on Survey, Scale, and Test Development. New York: Wiley.
  • Epskamp, S., & Fried, E. I. (2017). A Tutorial on Regularized Partial Correlation Networks.
  • 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.
  • Cosma Shalizi:  Discovering Causal Structure from Observations

Afternoon session: Estimation 2: Time-series Analysis

• Lecturer: Sacha Epskamp
• Literature
  • Epskamp, S., Waldorp, L. J., Mõttus, R., & Borsboom, D. (2017). The Gaussian Graphical Model in Cross-sectional and Time-series Data. Multivariate Behavioral Research.
  • Bringmann, L. F., Vissers, N., Wichers, M., Geschwind, N., Kuppens, P., Peeters, F., Borsboom, D., & Tuerlinckx, F. (2013). A network approach to psychopathology: New insights into clinical longitudinal data. PLoS ONE, 8, e60188.

Day 4: Thursday, August 30

Morning session: Estimation 3: Accuracy, Stability & Replicability

• Lecturer: Eiko Fried
• Literature
  • 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.

Afternoon session: Theory 3: Resilience

• Lecturer: Gaby Lunansky
• Literature
  • Folke, C., Carpenter, S. R., Walker, B., Scheffer, M., Chapin, T., & Rockström, J. (2010). Resilience thinking: integrating resilience, adaptability and transformability. Ecology and society, 15(4).
  • van de Leemput, I. A., Wichers, M., Cramer, A. O., Borsboom, D., Tuerlinckx, F., Kuppens, P., … & Derom, C. (2014). Critical slowing down as early warning for the onset and termination of depression. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 111(1), 87-92.
  • Cramer, A. O., van Borkulo, C. D., Giltay, E. J., van der Maas, H. L., Kendler, K. S., Scheffer, M., & Borsboom, D. (2016). Major depression as a complex dynamic system. PLoS One, 11(12), e0167490.

Dinner

There will be a dinner in the Ysbreker at 18:00. Guests can be invited to the dinner for an extra cost of 55 euro per person. Please contact us in this case and let the guest fill in the menu form separately.

Day 5: Friday, August 31

This whole day is dedicated to working on your own data. We will end the day with presentations by the participants.