Can network analysis transform psychopathology?

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 86, Issue , 2016, Pages 95-104

  McNally, Richard J ^a  

^a HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian networks; Diagnosis; Latent variable; Network analysis

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION NETWORK; BAYES THEOREM; BETWEENNESS CENTRALITY; CAUSAL ATTRIBUTION; CLOSENESS CENTRALITY; COMORBIDITY; DEGREE CENTRALITY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; EXPECTED INFLUENCE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MATHEMATICAL PHENOMENA; MENTAL DISEASE; NETWORK ANALYSIS; PARTIAL CORRELATION NETWORK; PSYCHIATRIC DIAGNOSIS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCE NETWORK; STRENGTH CENTRALITY; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; PROCEDURES; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA;

BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY;

EID: 84978841949     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: 1873622X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2016.06.006     Document Type: Review

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