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Problems with latent class analysis to detect data-driven subtypes of depression

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EIF is supported by European Research Council Consolidator Grant no. 647209.

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  1. Department of Psychiatry, University of Groningen, University Medical Center Groningen, Interdisciplinary Center Psychopathology and Emotion regulation, Groningen, The Netherlands

    H M van Loo, R B K Wanders & K J Wardenaar

  2. Department of Psychiatry, Virginia Commonwealth University, Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics, Richmond, VA, USA

    H M van Loo

  3. University of Leuven, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, Research Group of Quantitative Psychology and Individual Differences, Leuven, Belgium

    E I Fried

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van Loo, H., Wanders, R., Wardenaar, K. et al. Problems with latent class analysis to detect data-driven subtypes of depression. Mol Psychiatry 23, 495–496 (2018). https://doi.org/10.1038/mp.2016.202

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