Latent structure of depression in a Japanese population sample: Taxometric procedures

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry

Volumn 43, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 666-673

  Okumura, Yasuyuki ^a,b   Sakamoto, Shinji ^a   Ono, Yutaka ^c  

^a NIHON UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF MENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^c KEIO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Classification; Nosology; Taxometry; Validation

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CENTER FOR EPIDEMIOLOGICAL STUDIES DEPRESSION SCALE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPRESSION; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; JAPANESE; LATENT STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL PARAMETERS; MAXIMUM EIGENVALUE; MEANS ABOVE AND BELOW A SLIDING CUT; PSYCHOLOGICAL WELL BEING; SCHOOL CHILD;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHILD; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68049115668     PISSN: 00048674     EISSN: 14401614     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00048670902970841     Document Type: Article

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