Prediction of Boston naming test performance from vocabulary scores: Preliminary guidelines for interpretation

Perceptual and Motor Skills

Volumn 89, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 327-337

  Scott Killgore, William D ^a   Adams, Russell L ^b  

^a MCLEAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BRAIN DISEASE; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LANGUAGE TEST; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREDICTION AND FORECASTING; PSYCHOMETRY; READING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; STATISTICS; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BRAIN DISEASES; EDUCATIONAL STATUS; FALSE POSITIVE REACTIONS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; READING; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; VOCABULARY; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0033174132     PISSN: 00315125     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pms.1999.89.1.327     Document Type: Article

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