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Borsboom, D., Deserno, M.K., Rhemtulla, M. et al. Reply to ‘Critiques of network analysis of multivariate data in psychological science’. Nat Rev Methods Primers 2, 91 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43586-022-00178-8

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