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Fig. 11 | BMC Bioinformatics

Fig. 11

From: Analysis of associations between emotions and activities of drug users and their addiction recovery tendencies from social media posts using structural equation modeling

Fig. 11

Overview of modeling and analysis process: the posts of every user were analyzed using the LIWC and Empath dictionaries to generate the matrix \({M}_{n x m+1}\), where \(n\) represented the number of users and \(m\) the number of LIWC or Empath categories of interest. Each cell \({M}_{ij}\) in the matrix represents LIWC and Empath generated values of category j for the ith user. The column labeled ‘RECOVERY’ contained a binary flag representing if the user posted in a recovery forum. The data in \(M\) was subsequently analyzed using SEM

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