DeFries-Fulker analysis of twin data with skewed distributions: Cautions and recommendations from a study of children's use of verb inflections

Behavior Genetics

Volumn 35, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 479-490

  Bishop, D V M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Genetics; Grammar; Methods; Specific language impairment; Twins

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BEHAVIOR GENETICS; CHILD BEHAVIOR; DATA ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GENE FUNCTION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; SIMULATION; SPEECH;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; INHERITANCE PATTERNS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 20544460182     PISSN: 00018244     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10519-004-1834-7     Document Type: Article

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