Article
Estimation of individual genetic and environmental factor scores.
Genetic epidemiology - 1 Jan 1990
Boomsma D I, Molenaar P C, Orlebeke J F
Abstract excerpt
Implicit in the application of the common-factor model as a method for decomposing trait covariance into a genetic and environmental part is the use of factor scores. In multivariate analyses, it is possible to estimate these factor scores for the communal part of the model. Estimation of scores on latent factors in terms of individual observations within the context of a twin/family study amounts to estimation...
Topics
- Adolescent
- Blood Pressure
- Computer Simulation
- Confidence Intervals
- Environment
- Factor Analysis, Statistical
- Genetic Techniques
- Genetic Variation
- Humans
- Male
- Mathematics
- Models, Genetic