tna: An R Package for Transition Network Analysis.

Abstract

Understanding the dynamics of transitions plays a central role in educational research, informing studies of learning processes, motivation shifts, and social interactions. Transition network analysis (TNA) is a unified framework of probabilistic modeling and network analysis for capturing the temporal and relational aspects of transitions between events or states of interest. We introduce the R package tna that implements procedures for estimating the TNA models, building the transition networks, identifying patterns and communities, computing centrality measures, and visualizing the networks. The package also implements several functions for statistical procedures that can be used to assess differences between groups, stability of centrality measures and importance of specific transitions.