Examiners' errors on the Wechsler memory scale-revised

Psychological Reports

Volumn 87, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 234-240

  Sullivan, Karen ^a  

^a QUEENSLAND UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; DEMENTIA; EPIDEMIOLOGY; HUMAN; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMETRY; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICS; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

AMNESIA; BIAS (EPIDEMIOLOGY); DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DEMENTIA; HUMANS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PROFESSIONAL COMPETENCE; PSYCHOMETRICS; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0034242143     PISSN: 00332941     EISSN: 1558691X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2466/pr0.2000.87.1.234     Document Type: Article

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