The taxonicity of schizotypy: Does the same taxonic class structure emerge from analyses of different attributes of schizotypy and from fundamentally different statistical methods?

Psychiatry Research

Volumn 210, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 414-421

  Linscott, Richard J ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Factor mixture modeling; General population distribution; Latent structure; MAXCOV; Psychosis; Schizophrenia; Taxometric analysis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; FACTOR MIXTURE MODEL; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LATENT CLASS ANALYSIS; MALE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; MAXIMUM COVARIANCE; PHENOTYPE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOLOGIC ASSESSMENT; QUESTIONNAIRE; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY QUESTIONNAIRE; SCORING SYSTEM; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; CLASSIFICATION; GENETICS; NEW ZEALAND; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY TEST; PSYCHOLOGY; SCHIZOPHRENIA; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NEW ZEALAND; PERSONALITY; PERSONALITY INVENTORY; PHENOTYPE; QUESTIONNAIRES; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SCHIZOPHRENIC PSYCHOLOGY; SCHIZOTYPAL PERSONALITY DISORDER; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84886951560     PISSN: 01651781     EISSN: 18727123     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.psychres.2013.07.029     Document Type: Article

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