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A Nontechnical Introduction to the Taxometric Method

Pages 151-194 | Published online: 15 Jun 2010

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John Kitchener Sakaluk. (2019) Expanding Statistical Frontiers in Sexual Science: Taxometric, Invariance, and Equivalence Testing. The Journal of Sex Research 56:4-5, pages 475-510.
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Nicholas Longpré, Ewa B. Stefanska, Maria Tachmetzidi Papoutsi & Eleanor White. (2023) A Wolf in sheep’s clothing: taxometric evidence of the dimensional structure of stalking. Journal of Criminal Psychology 13:1, pages 18-33.
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Joseph Billingsley, Nikolette P. Lipsey, Jeni L. Burnette & Jeffrey M. Pollack. (2021) Growth mindsets: defining, assessing, and exploring effects on motivation for entrepreneurs and non-entrepreneurs. Current Psychology.
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Brian Weiler & C. Melanie Schuele. (2021) Tense Marking in the Kindergarten Population: Testing the Bimodal Distribution Hypothesis. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 64:2, pages 593-612.
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Nicholas Longpré, Raymond A. Knight, Jean-Pierre Guay, Massil Benbouriche & Glenn D. Walters. (2019) Hunting for Snarks: A Reply to McPhail (2019a). Archives of Sexual Behavior 49:1, pages 25-30.
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Ian V. McPhail. (2019) Of Dimensions, Dichotomies, and Trichotomies: Comments on the Taxometric Ghost that Haunts Longpré, Guay, Knight, and Benbouriche (2018). Archives of Sexual Behavior 49:1, pages 19-23.
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Ian V. McPhail, Mark E. Olver, Sébastien Brouillette-Alarie & Jan Looman. (2018) Taxometric Analysis of the Latent Structure of Pedophilic Interest. Archives of Sexual Behavior 47:8, pages 2223-2240.
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Otima Doyle, Trenette Clark Goings, Qiana R. Cryer-Coupet, Margaret Lombe, Jennifer Stephens & Von E. Nebbitt. (2017) Paternal Caregivers’ Parenting Practices and Psychological Functioning among African American Youth Living in Urban Public Housing. Family Process 56:3, pages 752-765.
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Sören Kliem, Heather M. Foran, Johannes Beller, Kurt Hahlweg, Yve Stöbel-Richter & Elmar Brähler. (2015) Dimensional Latent Structure of Relationship Quality: Results of Three Representative Population Samples. Journal of Marriage and Family 77:5, pages 1190-1201.
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Siphai Sunan & Srisa ard Boonchoom. (2015) Latent profile analysis of good citizenship of Rajabhat Universities students in the Northeast of Thailand. Educational Research and Reviews 10:13, pages 1789-1794.
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Fei Guo, Zhiyan Chen & Fen Ren. (2014) The latent structure of depression among Chinese: A taxometric analysis in a nationwide urban sample. PsyCh Journal 3:4, pages 234-244.
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Cherie Armour, Karen-Inge Karstoft & J. Don Richardson. (2014) The co-occurrence of PTSD and dissociation: differentiating severe PTSD from dissociative-PTSD. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 49:8, pages 1297-1306.
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Von E. Nebbitt, Margaret Lombe, Otima Doyle & Michael G. Vaughn. (2012) Modeling Variation in Paternal Encouragement and Monitoring Among African American Adolescents Living in Urban Public Housing: A Latent Profile Analytic Approach. Journal of African American Studies 17:3, pages 253-274.
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Massil Benbouriche, Nicolas Longpré, Olivier Vanderstukken & Jean-Pierre Guay. 2013. Troubles de la personnalité. Troubles de la personnalité 236 245 .
Glenn D. Shean & Gretchen Baldwin. (2012) The Latent Structure of the Center for Epidemiological Studies-Depression Scale. Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment 34:4, pages 502-509.
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Glenn D. Walters. (2012) Taxometrics and Criminal Justice: Assessing the Latent Structure of Crime-Related Constructs. Journal of Criminal Justice 40:1, pages 10-20.
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R. Nicholas Carleton, Justin W. Weeks, Ashley N. Howell, Gordon J.G. Asmundson, Martin M. Antony & Randi E. McCabe. (2012) Assessing the latent structure of the intolerance of uncertainty construct: An initial taxometric analysis. Journal of Anxiety Disorders 26:1, pages 150-157.
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Christine A. Dollaghan. (2011) Taxometric Analyses of Specific Language Impairment in 6-Year-Old Children. Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research 54:5, pages 1361-1371.
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John Ruscio, Ayelet Meron Ruscio & Lauren M. Carney. (2011) Performing Taxometric Analysis to Distinguish Categorical and Dimensional Variables. Journal of Experimental Psychopathology 2:2, pages 170-196.
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J. J. Prisciandaro & J. E. Roberts. (2010) Evidence for the continuous latent structure of mania in the Epidemiologic Catchment Area from multiple latent structure and construct validation methodologies. Psychological Medicine 41:3, pages 575-588.
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Matt DeLisiMichael Vaughn, Kevin M. Beaver, Jade Wexler, Amy E. Barth & Jack M. Fletcher. (2010) Fledgling Psychopathy in the Classroom: ADHD Subtypes, Psychopathy, and Reading Comprehension in a Community Sample of Adolescents. Youth Violence and Juvenile Justice 9:1, pages 43-58.
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Gordon J.G. Asmundson, Justin W. Weeks, R. Nicholas Carleton, Michel A. Thibodeau & Mathew G. Fetzner. (2011) Revisiting the latent structure of the anxiety sensitivity construct: More evidence of dimensionality. Journal of Anxiety Disorders 25:1, pages 138-147.
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Justin W. Weeks, R. Nicholas Carleton, Gordon J.G. Asmundson, Randi E. McCabe & Martin M. Antony. (2010) “Social Anxiety Disorder Carved at its Joints”: Evidence for the taxonicity of social anxiety disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders 24:7, pages 734-742.
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Thomas F. DensonRavi Iyer & Brian Lickel. (2009) Racist or racism? Taxometric support for a dimensional latent structure of explicit prejudice. Group Processes & Intergroup Relations 13:1, pages 113-128.
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Ayelet Meron Ruscio. (2009) Integrating structural and epidemiological research to inform the classification of psychopathology. International Journal of Methods in Psychiatric Research 18:4, pages 240-250.
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Eamonn Ferguson, Lynn Williams, Rory C. O’Connor, Siobhán Howard, Brian M. Hughes, Derek W. Johnston, Julia L. Allan, Daryl B. O’Connor, Christopher A. Lewis, Madeleine A. Grealy & Ronan E. O’Carroll. (2009) A Taxometric Analysis of Type-D Personality. Psychosomatic Medicine 71:9, pages 981-986.
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Tim Slade, Rachel Grove & Maree Teesson. (2009) A taxometric study of alcohol abuse and dependence in a general population sample: evidence of dimensional latent structure and implications for DSM‐V. Addiction 104:5, pages 742-751.
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John Ruscio. (2008) Assigning Cases to Groups Using Taxometric Results. Assessment 16:1, pages 55-70.
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David G. Ingram. (2009) Is the Metabolic Syndrome a Discrete Diagnostic Category or the End of a Continuum? Taxometric Evidence for Dimensionality in the National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey 1999–2004. Annals of Epidemiology 19:3, pages 143-147.
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E. Ferguson. (2008) A taxometric analysis of health anxiety. Psychological Medicine 39:2, pages 277-285.
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Justin W. Weeks, Peter J. Norton & Richard G. Heimberg. (2009) Exploring the latent structure of two cognitive components of social anxiety: taxometric analyses of fears of negative and positive evaluation. Depression and Anxiety 26:2, pages E40-E48.
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Milan Dragovic, Sanja Milenkovic & Geoff Hammond. (2008) The distribution of hand preference is discrete: A taxometric examination. British Journal of Psychology 99:4, pages 445-459.
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Michael G. Vaughn, Matt DeLisi, Kevin M. Beaver & Matthew O. Howard. (2008) Toward a Quantitative Typology of Burglars: A Latent Profile Analysis of Career Offenders. Journal of Forensic Sciences.
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Michael G. Vaughn, Jeffrey J. Shook & J. Curtis McMillen. (2008) Aging Out of Foster Care and Legal Involvement: Toward a Typology of Risk. Social Service Review 82:3, pages 419-446.
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Brian E. Perron, Michael G. Vaughn & Matthew O. Howard. (2008) Reasons for using inhalants: Evidence for discrete classes in a sample of incarcerated adolescents. Journal of Substance Abuse Treatment 34:4, pages 450-455.
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John Ruscio. (2016) Taxometric Analysis. Criminal Justice and Behavior 34:12, pages 1588-1622.
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Michael G. Vaughn, Brian E. Perron & Matthew O. Howard. (2007) Variations in social contexts and their effect on adolescent inhalant use: A latent profile investigation. Drug and Alcohol Dependence 91:2-3, pages 129-133.
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Glenn D. Walters, Scott A. Duncan & Kari Mitchell-Perez. (2016) The Latent Structure of Psychopathy. Assessment 14:3, pages 270-278.
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Glenn D. WaltersKatrina McCoy. (2007) Taxometric Analysis of the Psychological Inventory of Criminal Thinking Styles in Incarcerated Offenders and College Students. Criminal Justice and Behavior 34:6, pages 781-793.
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John Ruscio, Mark Zimmerman, Joseph B. McGlinchey, Iwona Chelminski & Diane Young. (2007) Diagnosing Major Depressive Disorder XI. Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease 195:1, pages 10-19.
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Thomas F Denson & Mitch Earleywine. (2006) Pothead or pot smoker? a taxometric investigation of cannabis dependence. Substance Abuse Treatment, Prevention, and Policy 1:1.
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Milan Dragovic. (2006) Taxometric analyses in psychological research and in classification of mental disorders. Psihologija 39:4, pages 439-457.
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Dylan M. Kollman, Timothy A. Brown, Gabrielle I. Liverant & Stefan G. Hofmann. (2006) A taxometric investigation of the latent structure of social anxiety disorder in outpatients with anxiety and mood disorders. Depression and Anxiety 23:4, pages 190-199.
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James J. Prisciandaro & John E. Roberts. (2005) A Taxometric Investigation of Unipolar Depression in the National Comorbidity Survey.. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 114:4, pages 718-728.
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John Ruscio & Ayelet Meron Ruscio. (2004) A conceptual and methodological checklist for conducting a taxometric investigation. Behavior Therapy 35:2, pages 403-447.
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