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Multivariate Cholesky models of human female fertility patterns in the NLSY.
Behavior genetics - 1 Mar 2007
Rodgers Joseph Lee, Bard David E, Miller Warren B
Abstract excerpt
Substantial evidence now exists that variables measuring or correlated with human fertility outcomes have a heritable component. In this study, we define a series of age-sequenced fertility variables, and fit multivariate models to account for underlying shared genetic and environmental sources of variance. We make predictions based on a theory developed by Udry [(1996) Biosocial models of low-fertility...
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