Have we forgotten the base rate problem? Methodological issues in the detection of distortion

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 349-359

  Rosenfeld, Barry ^a   Sands, Stephen A ^b   Van Gorp, Wilfred G ^c  

^a LONG ISLAND UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c WEILL CORNELL MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Malingering; Memory; Neuropsychology; WMS

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLASSIFICATION; HUMAN; MALINGERING; MEMORY; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PREDICTION;

EID: 0034033111     PISSN: 08876177     EISSN: 18735843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0887-6177(99)00025-6     Document Type: Article

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