Can genetics help psychometrics? Improving dimensionality assessment through genetic factor modeling

Psychological Methods

Volumn 18, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 406-433

  Franić, Sanja ^a   Dolan, Conor V ^b   Borsboom, Denny ^b   Hudziak, James J ^c   van Beijsterveldt, Catherina E M ^a   Boomsma, Dorret I ^a  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERMONT   (United States)

Author keywords

Common pathway model; Dimensionality; Genetic covariance structure modeling; Independent pathway model; Latent variable model

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BIOLOGICAL MODEL; GENETICS; HUMAN; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICAL MODEL; TWINS;

GENETICS; HUMANS; MODELS, GENETIC; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; TWIN STUDIES AS TOPIC;

EID: 84883753279     PISSN: 1082989X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0032755     Document Type: Article

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