title: Mathematical models for describing the clustering of sociopathy and hysteria in families: a comment on the recent paper by Cloninger et al.
abstract: The fitting of the multifactorial model of disease transmission to the familial clustering of hysteria and sociopathy by Cloninger et al (I) involved an approximation. This note reports the results of fitting the bivariate Normal model exactly and also two other distributions.
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007046:Hysteria / Q000235:genetics*; D008297:Male; D008960:Models, Psychological; D012920:Social Behavior Disorders / Q000235:genetics*