Taxonic structure of schizotypal personality disorder: A multiple-instrument, multi-sample study based on mixture models

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 137, Issue 1-2, 2005, Pages 71-85

  Fossati, Andrea ^a,c   Citterio, Alessandra ^a   Grazioli, Federica ^a   Borroni, Serena ^a   Carretta, Ilaria ^a   Maffei, Cesare ^a   Battaglia, Marco ^a,b  

^a VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c SAN RAFFAELE HOSPITAL   (Italy)

Author keywords

Latent structure analysis; Mixture models; Schizotypal disorder; Structural equation modeling; Taxonomy

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITAL PATIENT; HUMAN; INTERVIEW; MALE; MODEL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; OUTPATIENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SCORING SYSTEM; TAXONOMY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; PERSONALITY ASSESSMENT; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SOFTWARE;

EID: 27644559569     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2005.02.008     Document Type: Article

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