How can I calculate the bridge index in the network analysis?

PuPeng

I have tried to use JASP to conduct network analysis. However, I can not calculate bridge index, such as bridge strength and bridge expected influence. How can I manage that?

TarandeepKang

Hello, I'm not a member of the JASP development team, but like you just an enthusiastic user! I too often make use of network models, and agree that Bridge statistics are very useful. I made an issue on GitHub to suggest the inclusion of this test. It's nice to know somebody else has enthusiasm for this. I'm sure we will hear from the team soon.

[Feature Request]: Bridge statistics · Issue #2117 · jasp-stats/jasp-issues (github.com)

 PS, I have also made other requests for related features such as community detection (somebody else first suggested that several years ago) and methods for comparing structure of several networks across groups et cetera.

[Feature Request]: adding functionality to compare network structure across groups · Issue #2067 · jasp-stats/jasp-issues (github.com)

Enhancement: network community discovery algorithms walktrap and spinglass (R-package igraph) · Issue #198 · jasp-stats/jasp-issues (github.com)

[Feature Request]: network landscape stability · Issue #2235 · jasp-stats/jasp-issues (github.com)

TarandeepKang

I would add that somebody also has also suggested possibly including approaches to the use of network models for longitudinal data [Feature Request]: temporal networks inlcuding multilevel vector autoregressive modelling · Issue #2100 · jasp-stats/jasp-issues (github.com)

@EJ I hope it's not impolite to draw your attention? I think this request from the original commenter, and the other features I note above are really very useful, and some have been open for a very long time without seemingly being looked at? Could you ask someone to let us know what they think? As an addendum, I'm increasingly familiar with the use of these approaches, and would gladly help with implementation/testing if it's useful.

Thanks in advance for your help.

EJ

I'll bring this to the attention of the experts.

Cheers,

E.J.