Modeling psychological attributes in psychology - An epistemological discussion: Network analysis vs. latent variables

Frontiers in Psychology

Volumn 8, Issue MAY, 2017, Pages

  Guyon, Hervé ^a,b   Falissard, Bruno ^a   Kop, Jean Luc ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR RESEARCH IN EPIDEMIOLOGY AND POPULATION HEALTH   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS SACLAY   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LORRAINE   (France)

Author keywords

Complex systems; Epistemology in psychology; Latent Network models; Latent Variables; Network Analysis; Pragmatism realism; Psychological attributes

Indexed keywords

EID: 85019951012     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16641078     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.00798     Document Type: Article

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