Validity indicators within the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test: Application of new and previously researched multivariate procedures in multiple traumatic brain injury samples

Clinical Neuropsychologist

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 506-523

  King, John H ^a   Sweet, Jerry J ^a,d   Sherer, Mark ^b   Curtiss, Glenn ^c   Vanderploeg, Rodney D ^c  

^a EVANSTON NORTHWESTERN HEALTHCARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c James A Haley Veterans' Administrations Hospital   (United States)

^d ENH Research Institute   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AMNESIA; ARTICLE; BRAIN INJURY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MALINGERING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; REHABILITATION; WISCONSIN CARD SORTING TEST;

ADULT; BRAIN INJURIES; CHRONIC DISEASE; COGNITION DISORDERS; FEMALE; FORENSIC MEDICINE; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MALE; MALINGERING; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SAMPLING STUDIES; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 0037513444     PISSN: 13854046     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1076/clin.16.4.506.13912     Document Type: Article

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