Our findings do not fit closely into the large prior literature on AD typologies37–40 for two reasons. First, our modeling focused solely on the clinical criteria for AD. Other features of AD not examined here (for example, comorbidities, age at onset, course of illness, and personality type) typically have a prominent role in prior typologies. Second, typological analysis is person-focused, sorting affected individuals into different subgroups. Our analyses were criteria-focused, determining how different criteria for AUDs clustered together in alcohol consuming individuals.
