Twins and the Study of Rater (Dis)agreement

Psychological Methods

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 451-466

  Bartels, Meike ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a   Hudziak, James J ^b   van Beijsterveldt, Toos C E M ^a   van den Oord, Edwin J C G ^c  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c VIRGINIA COMMONWEALTH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

developmental psychology; rater bias; structural equation modeling; twin studies

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; GENOTYPE; HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; TWINS;

GENOTYPE; HUMANS; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; OBSERVER VARIATION; TWINS;

EID: 38349096088     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1082-989X.12.4.451     Document Type: Article

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