sF: sF Similarity Metric

In EGAnet: Exploratory Graph Analysis – a Framework for Estimating the Number of Dimensions in Multivariate Data using Network Psychometrics

sF Similarity Metric

Description

Computes the sF norm based metric, s_F (Ulitzsch et al., 2023)

Usage

sF(network1, network2)

Arguments

network1	Matrix or data frame. Network to be compared
network2	Matrix or data frame. Second network to be compared

Value

Returns sF

Author(s)

Hudson Golino <hfg9s at virginia.edu> & Alexander P. Christensen <alexander.christensen at Vanderbilt.Edu>

References

Simulation Study
Ulitzsch, E., Khanna, S., Rhemtulla, M., & Domingue, B. W. (2023). A graph theory based similarity metric enables comparison of subpopulation psychometric networks Psychological Methods.

Examples

# Obtain wmt2 data
wmt <- wmt2[,7:24]

# Set seed (for reproducibility)
set.seed(1234)

# Split data
split1 <- sample(
  1:nrow(wmt), floor(nrow(wmt) / 2)
)
split2 <- setdiff(1:nrow(wmt), split1)

# Obtain split data
data1 <- wmt[split1,]
data2 <- wmt[split2,]

# Perform EBICglasso
glas1 <- EBICglasso.qgraph(data1)
glas2 <- EBICglasso.qgraph(data2)

# sF
sF(glas1, glas2)
# 0.7070395

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