Scoring the NBAS: To recode or not to recode

Infant Behavior and Development

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 63-69

  McCollam, Karen M ^a   Embretson, Susan E ^b   Horowitz, Frances Degen ^b   Mitchell, D Wayne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KANSAS   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Neonatal Behavioral Assessment Scale; Principal components analysis; Psychometrics; Reliability; Scoring

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029687086     PISSN: 01636383     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0163-6383(96)90044-2     Document Type: Article

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