Correcting estimates of shared environmental variance for range restriction in adoption studies using a truncated multivariate normal model

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 28, Issue 6, 1998, Pages 429-441

  Stoolmiller, Mike ^a  

^a OREGON SOCIAL LEARNING CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Adoption; IQ; Shared environment; Sibling resemblance; Truncated distributions

Indexed keywords

ADOPTION; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS;

ADOPTION; CHILD; GENOTYPE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHENOTYPE; SOCIAL ENVIRONMENT; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0032447563     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1021685211674     Document Type: Article

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