Normal variation and abnormality: An empirical study of the liability distributions underlying depression and deliquency

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 44, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 180-192

  Van Der Oord, Edwin J C G ^a   Pickles, Andrew ^b   Waldman, Irwin D ^c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Behavioural and emotional problems; Item response theory; Liability; Multifactorial threshold model; Non normality; Symptom counts

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANTISOCIAL BEHAVIOR; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DELINQUENCY; DEPRESSION; EMOTIONAL DISORDER; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; NORMAL DISTRIBUTION; PARENT; PREDICTION; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCORING SYSTEM; SELF EVALUATION; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; HEALTH SURVEY; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; RISK FACTOR;

ADOLESCENT; AFFECTIVE SYMPTOMS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HEALTH SURVEYS; HUMANS; JUVENILE DELINQUENCY; MALE; PSYCHOMETRICS; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0038192187     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1469-7610.00112     Document Type: Article

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