Article History
Accepted: 7 September 2020
First Online: 14 September 2020
Compliance with Ethical Standards
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: There is no conflict of interests to report for the present work.
: All ABCD research sites relied on a central Institutional Review Board (cIRB) at the University of California, San Diego for ethical approval of the research protocol, with the exception of the site at Washington University in St. Louis utilizing their local IRB approval.
: Informed consent and assent of parents and children were obtained prior to the baseline assessment. All sites have complied with the ethical regulations during data collection, release, and analysis (Auchter et al. CitationRef removed). De-identified ABCD data can be accessed by NIH-recognized research institution with Federal-wide Assurance. The current use of the ABCD data for secondary analysis is exempt from IRB review, according to the IRB of Stony Brook University.
: The current analyses were conducted based on open-source R packages, including <i>qgraph</i>, <i>mgm</i>, <i>bootnet</i>, and <i>NetworkComparisonTest</i>.