NetworkComparisonTest

2.2.3

Statistical Comparison of Two Networks Based on Several Invariance Measures

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Overview

About

Maintained by Don van den BerghFirst published 2016-09-075 releasesCRAN page ↗

This permutation based hypothesis test, suited for several types of data supported by the estimateNetwork function of the bootnet package (Epskamp & Fried, 2018), assesses the difference between two networks based on several invariance measures (network structure invariance, global strength invariance, edge invariance, several centrality measures, etc.). Network structures are estimated with l1-regularization. The Network Comparison Test is suited for comparison of independent (e.g., two different groups) and dependent samples (e.g., one group that is measured twice). See van Borkulo et al. (2021), available from doi:10.1037/met0000476.

Install

R (CRAN)Ubuntu (r2u)openSUSE (OBS)

install.packages("NetworkComparisonTest", repos = "https://cloud.r-project.org/")

Installs the current CRAN release. Prebuilt binaries on Windows and macOS.

Release

# enable cranapt (r2u) if it is not already set up, then install
grep -rqs r2u.stat.illinois.edu /etc/apt/sources.list /etc/apt/sources.list.d/ \
  || curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com/eddelbuettel/r2u/master/inst/scripts/add_cranapt_noble.sh | sudo bash
sudo apt install -y r-cran-networkcomparisontest

Fast Ubuntu binaries via r2u (no compilation). The cranapt setup runs once and is skipped when it is already enabled.

bspm (used by r2u) also needs make: sudo apt install make

# add the autoCRAN OBS repo (Tumbleweed) if it is missing, then install
zypper -q lr | grep -qi autoCRAN \
  || sudo zypper addrepo https://download.opensuse.org/repositories/devel:/languages:/R:/autoCRAN/openSUSE_Tumbleweed/devel:languages:R:autoCRAN.repo
sudo zypper install -y R-NetworkComparisonTest

RPMs auto-built from CRAN on openSUSE OBS (Tumbleweed).

Health

CRAN checks

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Slowest check: 4.6 min · r-devel-linux-x86_64-fedora-clang

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ERROR2026-04-25
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Dependencies

Declared dependencies

7 external dependencies (excludes base and recommended)

Depends (0)

none

Imports (9)

statsgraphicsutilsMatrixmethodsreshape2 qgraph networktools IsingFit

LinkingTo (0)

none

Suggests (3)

bootnet IsingSampler testthat

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Reverse dependencies

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GGMncv

Code & Tests

People & History

People (7)

Maintainer (1)

Don van den Bergh

Maintainer · added in 2.2.2

Authors (3)

Sacha Epskamp

Author · added in 2.2.1

Payton Jones

Author · added in 2.2.1

Claudia van Borkulo

Author · added in 2.2.1

Contributors (3)

Jonas Haslbeck

Contributor · added in 2.2.1

Karoline Huth

Contributor · added in 2.2.2

Alex Millner

Contributor

Listed in earlier versions (2)

Claudia D. van Borkulo

no longer listed · 2.0.0 to 2.0.1

with contributions from Sacha Epskamp

no longer listed · 2.0.0 to 2.0.1

Package Timeline

5 releases. R releases are shown for context.

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R 4.6.0 released · 2026-04-24
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R 4.2.0 released · 2022-04-22
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R 4.1.0 released · 2021-05-18
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R 3.6.0 released · 2019-04-26
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R 3.5.0 released · 2018-04-23
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R 3.4.0 released · 2017-04-21
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2016-09-07
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R 3.3.0 released · 2016-05-03

Package metadata

First published: 2016-09-07
Total releases: 5 / 10 yrs
License: GPL-2 OSI
Download size: 26 KB
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