Using the Mplus Computer Program to Estimate Models for Continuous and Categorical Data from Twins

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 34, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 17-40

  Prescott, Carol A ^a  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alcoholism; Categorical data; Mplus; Structural equation models; Twins

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; ALCOHOLISM; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; COMPUTER PROGRAM; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; EXPERIMENTAL MODEL; FEMALE; GENETIC RISK; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHENOTYPE; SEX DIFFERENCE; TWINS;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ALCOHOLISM; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; DISEASES IN TWINS; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PHENOTYPE; SOFTWARE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC; VARIATION (GENETICS);

EID: 0942268837     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:BEGE.0000009474.97649.2f     Document Type: Article

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