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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2008 Feb 13.
Published in final edited form as: Arch Gen Psychiatry. 2005 Dec;62(12):1352–1359. doi: 10.1001/archpsyc.62.12.1352

Table 2.

Fit Criteria for Continuous Liability Models Constraining Parameter Estimates Across Sex and Disorder*

Criterion
Model K ln(L) BIC
Slopes, intercepts differ across sex 24 −45449.84 45577.89
Slopes differ, intercepts equal across sex 18 −45646.72 45742.76
Slopes equal, intercepts differ across sex 18 −45465.10 45561.14
Slopes equal across sex and disorder, intercepts differ 13 −45647.14 45716.51
Slopes, intercepts equal across sex 12 −46033.12 46097.15

Abbreviations: BIC, Bayesian information criterion; ln(L), log likelihood.

*

Fit criteria for continuous normal liability models in which various combinations of slope and intercept parameters were constrained to be equal across sex and disorder. In all models except for the fourth model, parameters were allowed to differ across disorder.

k indicates number of parameters.