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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 May 14.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Med. 2011 Aug 11;42(3):497–508. doi: 10.1017/S0033291711001401

Table 1.

Results of model fitting for number of lifetime gambling episodes using twin and sibling pairs

Sex effects
Model Description Qualitative Quantitative Δ χ 2 Δdf ΔAIC
Ia ACET + +
II ACET + + 3.369 +3 –2.631
III ACET + 3.369 +5 –6.631
IVb ACE + 3.900 +6 –8.100
V CE + 19.330 +7 + 5.330
VI AE + 28.362 +7 + 14.362

A, Additive genetic effects; C, shared environment; E, individual-specific environment; T, special twin environment; df, degrees of freedom; AIC, Akaike's Information Criterion.

a

–2 log likelihood = 4615.856, df = 1736, AIC = 1143.856.

b

Best-fit model.