June 29 – July 03, 2020

email: psynetsummerschool@gmail.com

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Summary

This summer school will focus on both theoretical foundations of network psychometrics as well as on modeling techniques developed from this perspective. After completing this summer school you will be able to 1) understand the theoretical foundations behind network modeling, 2) infer network topology and estimate network parameters from different sources of data, and 3) analyze the network structure and its stability. Materials from our last winter school are available online here.

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Target Audience

The summer school is intended for empirical researchers who wish to study networks in psychology, as well as for theoretical researchers interested in the foundations of the network perspective. Please note that basic knowledge of R is recommended, though we will make available a video-lecture and materials to learn R.

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Online edition setup

Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the 2020 edition of the Psychological Networks Amsterdam summer school will be entirely online. The setup is as follows:

Before the start of PNASS 2020, we will make all video-lectures available, organized in 10 different topics and accompanied with sets of exercises, solution files and videos going through the exercises. You can work through these topics at your own pace throughout the week.

A preliminary overview of the topics covered is:

• Theoretical foundations of network analysis
• Network science
• Causality
• Undirected network models
• Model selection, accuracy and network comparison
• Network Psychometrics
• Time-series
• Directed acyclic graph estimation
• Advanced topics
• Challenges & future directions

In addition to the topics, you can also work on your own data during the week.

Throughout the week, a Slack forum will be available for all participants to ask questions about both the material and their own analyses. This will be our virtual "classroom". In three blocks during the day, members of our lab will be on the Slack board to answer questions (the evening session is dedicated to participants from American time-zones and will only have one assistant):

• Morning session: 10.00 - 13.30 CEST
• Afternoon session: 14.30 - 18.00 CEST
• Evening session: 19.00 - 22.00 CEST

There will be two meetings on Zoom for all participants:

• Monday June 29 - 16:00 CEST: Introduction round
• Friday July 03 - 16:00 CEST: Chance to present work on your own data

The Friday Zoom meeting is a chance to get some input on your own data analysis. If you can't make this meeting and would like input still, you can alternatively submit a 1-page research proposal by the end of the week on which we will provide feedback.

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Cost

€475; (PhD) Students receive a 20% discount with the discount code phdstudent

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What do you pay for?

Please note that following PNASS 2020, we will make all video lectures and exercise sets publicly available. To this end, your payment is not for the video series per se (although it is used to make this video series possible), but rather for assistance on the Slack forum, feedback on your data analysis, the solution files and videos going through the exercises, as well as a certificate of attendance.

All proceedings from PNASS 2020 are used for academic purposes for our lab members (e.g., facilitate research visits, conferences, lab materials, etcetera).