Problems with using sum scores for estimating variance components: Contamination and measurement noninvariance

Twin Research and Human Genetics

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 553-568

  Neale, Michael C ^a   Lubke, Gitta ^b   Aggen, Steven H ^a   Dolan, Conor V ^c  

^a VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DATA ANALYSIS; DIZYGOTIC TWINS; GENETIC ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT; MONOZYGOTIC TWINS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PARAMETER; PARENT; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REVIEW; SELF CONCEPT; SIMULATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SYMPTOM; THEORY; ZYGOSITY;

HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE TRAIT, HERITABLE; TWINS, DIZYGOTIC; TWINS, MONOZYGOTIC;

EID: 28544447288     PISSN: 18324274     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1375/183242705774860231     Document Type: Review

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