AUTHOR=Wang Selena 

TITLE=Recent Integrations of Latent Variable Network Modeling With Psychometric Models

JOURNAL=Frontiers in Psychology

VOLUME=Volume 12 - 2021

YEAR=2021

URL=https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/psychology/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.773289

DOI=10.3389/fpsyg.2021.773289

ISSN=1664-1078

ABSTRACT=The combination of network modeling and psychometric models has opened up
exciting directions of research. However, there has been confusion surrounding network
models, graphic models, latent variable models and their applications in psychology. In
this paper, we attempt to remedy this gap by providing a comprehensive introduction of
latent variable network models and their recent integration with psychometric models
to both psychometricians and applied psychologists. Following this introduction, we
summarize developments under network psychometrics and show how graphical models
under this framework can be distinguished from other network models. Every model
is introduced using united notations, and integrative models are discussed from both
network and psychometric perspectives. All methods are accompanied by available
open-source R packages inducive to further independent learning.