Choices of measures of association affect the visualisation and composition of the multimorbidity networks.
Mohammad Reza BaneshiAnnette J DobsonGita Devi MishraPublished in: BMC medical research methodology (2024)
Use of different statistics to estimate weights leads to different networks. For exploratory purposes, one may apply alternative weights to identify a large list of pairs for further assessment in independent studies. However, when the aim is to visualise the data in a robust and parsimonious network, only pairs which are selected by multiple statistics should be visualised.
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