Detecting significant change in neuropsychological test performance: A comparison of four models

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 357-369

  Temkin, Nancy R ^a,b   Heaton, Robert K ^c   Grant, Igor ^c,d   Dikmen, Sureyya S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d VA SAN DIEGO HEALTHCARE SYSTEM   (United States)

Author keywords

Confidence intervals; Prediction intervals; Reliability; Stability; Test retest data

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; COMPETENCE; CONTROLLED STUDY; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MALE; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RELIABILITY; TASK PERFORMANCE; TIME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COGNITION DISORDERS; DISEASE PROGRESSION; FEMALE; FORECASTING; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PRACTICE (PSYCHOLOGY); PSYCHOMETRICS; RECOVERY OF FUNCTION; REFERENCE VALUES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0033010646     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617799544068     Document Type: Article

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