作者
Denny Borsboom, Mijke Rhemtulla, Angelique OJ Cramer, Han LJ van der Maas, Marten Scheffer, Conor V Dolan
发表日期
2016/6
来源
Psychological medicine
卷号
46
期号
8
页码范围
1567-1579
出版商
Cambridge University Press
简介
The question of whether psychopathology constructs are discrete kinds or continuous dimensions represents an important issue in clinical psychology and psychiatry. The present paper reviews psychometric modelling approaches that can be used to investigate this question through the application of statistical models. The relation between constructs and indicator variables in models with categorical and continuous latent variables is discussed, as are techniques specifically designed to address the distinction between latent categories as opposed to continua (taxometrics). In addition, we examine latent variable models that allow latent structures to have both continuous and categorical characteristics, such as factor mixture models and grade-of-membership models. Finally, we discuss recent alternative approaches based on network analysis and dynamical systems theory, which entail that the structure of …
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