An application of item response mixture modelling to psychosis indicators in two large community samples

Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology

Volumn 42, Issue 10, 2007, Pages 771-779

  Shevlin, Mark ^a   Adamson, Gary ^a   Vollebergh, Wilma ^b   de Graaf, Ron ^b   van Os, Jim ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

^b NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH AND ADDICTION   (Netherlands)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Hybrid model; IRT; Latent class analysis; Psychosis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; BIPOLAR DISORDER; COMMUNITY MENTAL HEALTH; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HALLUCINATION; HEBEPHRENIA; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; INTERVIEW; LATENT STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MAJOR DEPRESSION; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERSECUTORY DELUSION; PROCESS MODEL; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIFORM DISORDER; SYMPTOM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DATA COLLECTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NETHERLANDS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOTIC DISORDERS; RESIDENCE CHARACTERISTICS;

EID: 34748862460     PISSN: 09337954     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-007-0244-6     Document Type: Article

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