Chunk #6 — Methods

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Familial influences on conduct disorder reflect 2 genetic factors and 1 shared environmental factor.

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The goal of model fitting was to achieve an optimal balance of explanatory power and analytic parsimony. We operationalized this goal by using the Bayesian information criterion (BIC), which performs particularly well with more complex models of the kind evaluated herein.23 Lower values of BIC indicate relatively better fit.