Nature, nurture, and item response theory: a psychometric approach to behaviour genetics

Inga Schwabe

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Nature, nurture, and item response theory: a psychometric approach to behaviour genetics

Inga Schwabe

Faculty of Behavioural, Management and Social Sciences

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This dissertation discusses a number of psychometric issues that require special attention in the analysis of genetically-informative data, such as data on twins. These include heterogeneous measurement error, scaling and scale transformation, and harmonization of phenotypes. It is shown how ignoring these issues can result in spurious findings of genotype by environment interaction. Multilevel item response theory models are proposed that can help solve these problems.

Original language	English
Awarding Institution	University of Twente
Supervisors/Advisors	Glas, Cees A.W., Supervisor van den Berg, Stéphanie M., Advisor Glas, C.A.W., Supervisor, External person van den Berg, S.M., Advisor, External person
Award date	24 Mar 2016
Place of Publication	Enschede
Publisher	Universiteit Twente
Print ISBNs	978-90-365-4073-5
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3990/1.9789036540735
Publication status	Published - 24 Mar 2016

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