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netSEM: Network Structural
Equation Modeling
Laura S. Bruckman, Nicholas R. Wheeler,
Junheng Ma, Ethan Wang, Carl K. Wang, Ivan
Chou, Jiayang Sun, and Roger H. French
Network structural equa琀椀on modeling
(netSEM) is a data-driven modeling
technique that has been developed at the
SDLE Research Center and with a public
version available as a R so昀琀ware package
CRAN. netSEM selects the best
rela琀椀onship between variables based on
sta琀椀s琀椀cal significance such as adjusted R2
and also rank order models using Akaike
Informa琀椀on Criterion (AIC), and Bayesian
Informa琀椀on Criterion (BIC).
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