Sensitivity analyses
psychic anxiety, depressed mood
To assess the accuracy of the most relevant edge weights in the estimated networks (Fig. To test the robustness of our network findings across trials, we estimated the networks while adjusting for trial-id and found no substantial differences in estimations; at week 6, for example, the beneficial effects of SSRIs on depressed mood (edge weight = −0.17) and psychic anxiety (edge weight = −0.12) and the detrimental effect on genital problems (edge weight = 0.11) were stable. Adjustment for age, which was significantly related to treatment condition (see the previous section on baseline characteristics), did also not substantially change the networks; at week 6, for example, the edge weights of SSRIs with depressed mood (edge weight = −0.17), psychic anxiety (edge weight = −0.11) and genital problems (edge weight = 0.11) remained the same.