• The Korean Journal of Applied Statistics
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• v.36 no.1
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• pp.1-19
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• 2023

The purpose of this study was to find out what attributes are valid for the edge between students through longitudinal network analysis, and the results of TERGM (temporal exponential random graph model) and SAOM (stochastic actor-oriented model) statistical models were compared. The TERGM model interprets the research results based on the edge formation of the entire network, and the SAOM model interprets the research results on the surrounding networks formed by specific actors. The TERGM model expressed the influence of a previous time through a time term, and the SAOM model considered temporal dependence by implementing a network that evolves by an actor's opportunity as a ratio function.

• Communications for Statistical Applications and Methods
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• v.30 no.6
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• pp.561-575
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• 2023

Brain network analysis has attracted the interest of neuroscience researchers in studying brain diseases. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) is especially proper for analyzing functional connectivity due to high temporal and spatial resolution. The application of graph theory for functional connectivity analysis has been studied widely, but research on network modeling for MEG still needs more. Temporal exponential random graph model (TERGM) considers temporal dependencies of networks. We performed the brain network analysis, including static/temporal network statistics, on two groups of epilepsy patients who removed the left (LT) or right (RT) part of the brain and healthy controls. We investigate network differences using Multiset canonical correlation analysis (MCCA) and TERGM between epilepsy patients and healthy controls (HC). The brain network of healthy controls had fewer temporal changes than patient groups. As a result of TERGM, on the simulation networks, LT and RT had less stable state than HC in the network connectivity structure. HC had a stable state of the brain network.