“…However, its application in statistical inference for brain network studies has been limited, largely due to computational constraints and scalability issues. Notable exceptions exist in the literature ( Abdallah et al, 2023 ; Kumar et al, 2023 ; Robinson and Turner, 2017 ; Salch et al, 2021 ; Songdechakraiwut et al, 2021 ). Instead, researchers have turned to the vectorization of persistence diagrams as a more practical and efficient alternative for statistical inference.…”