On the use of scaling and clustering in the study of semantic deficits

Neuropsychology

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 289-301

  Storms, Gert ^a   Dirikx, Trinette ^a   Saerens, Jos ^b   Verstraeten, Sonja ^b   De Deyn, Peter P ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ANTWERP   (Belgium)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL STUDY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE SIMULATION; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HUMAN; MENTAL DEFICIENCY; MENTAL PATIENT; METHODOLOGY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SCHIZOPHRENIA; SEMANTICS; VALIDATION PROCESS;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ALGORITHMS; ALZHEIMER DISEASE; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; MALE; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SEMANTICS;

EID: 0038485516     PISSN: 08944105     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/0894-4105.17.2.289     Document Type: Article

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