Course Materials: Introduction to OpenMx [Fall 2009] | Virginia Institute for Psychiatric and Behavioral Genetics

Topics for 2009 Fall Session

Website: OpenMx
Text: Methodology for Genetic Studies of Twins and Families by Neale & Cardon, 1992 revision.
Classic Mx Manual: Mx: Statistical Modeling by Neale, Boker, Xie & Maes, 2006.

Date	Lecture Topic	Lecturer	Notes and Examples
Oct 14	Introduction to R	Tim York	Tim York’s R
Oct 21	Introduction to R	Tim York	Session 11
Nov 04	Introduction to OpenMx	Michael Neale / Hermine Maes	OpenMx SMEP Presentation OpenMx Intro Presentation OpenMxReferenceKey First OpenMx script MatrixAlgebraExercises
Nov 11	Matrix Algebra & Optimization in OpenMx	Hermine Maes	OpenMx Intro Presentation updated First OpenMx script updated Matrix Algebra Exercises script Univ Sat Biv Sat
Nov 18	Univariate Twin Modeling in OpenMx	Hermine Maes	OpenMx Univariate Twin Presentation 3 Univariate Twin Continuous -Matrix Univariate Twin Continuous -Path Univariate Twin Ordinal -Matrix
Dec 02	Heterogeneity & Moderated Twin Modeling in OpenMx	Michael Neale / Hermine Maes	OpenMx Univariate & Heterogeneity Twin Presentation 4 Heterogeneity Twin Continuous -Matrix Definition Variables & Means -Matrix
Dec 09	Heterogeneity & Moderated Twin Modeling in OpenMx II	Hermine Maes	OpenMx Univariate & Heterogeneity Twin Presentation 5 Moderated Twin Continuous -Matrix
Jan 13	Bivariate Twin Modeling in OpenMx	Hermine Maes	OpenMx Bivariate Twin Presentation 6 Saturated Twin Continuous -Matrix Bivariate Twin Continuous -Matrix usski.rec dataset
Jan 20	Multivariate Twin Modeling in OpenMx	Hermine Maes	OpenMx Bi/Multivariate Twin Presentation Saturated Bivariate Twin Bivariate Twin Continuous -Matrix corrected Multivariate Twin Continuous -Matrix 2 nliq.rec dataset
Jan 27	Multivariate Twin Modeling in OpenMx	Hermine Maes	OpenMx Multivariate Twin Presentation Multivariate Twin Continuous -Matrix 8
Feb 03	Multivariate Twin Modeling in OpenMx	Hermine Maes	Multivariate Twin Continuous -Matrix Gen Epi Helper Functions
Reference Material	Path analysis Matrix algebra Introduction to Mx Biometrical Genetics	Hermine Maes	Path Analysis PPT Path Analysis PDF Matrix Algebra PPT Matrix Algebra PDF Mx input Mx output Intro to Mx PPT Intro to Mx PDF Biometrical Genetics PPT Biometrical Genetics PDF