Heritability & individual differences › Within-family design
Term
Within-family design
Comparisons among relatives that help reduce confounding from ancestry structure, assortative mating, and some family-level environmental pathways.
Context
Evidence & provenance
Source-backed trail
The project corpus supplies 1 supporting reference for this concept or its surrounding literature. The concise definition above is wiki-authored; consult the cited source directly for study design, population, estimates, and limitations. [1]
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- When comparing findings, inspect population, design, effect size, uncertainty, selection, and whether the inference is within-person, between-person, predictive, or causal.