Lessons on measuring construct validity: A commentary on Delis, Jacobson, Bondi, Hamilton, and Salmon

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2003, Pages 947-953

  Larrabee, Glenn J ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contruct validity; Factor analysis; Method variance

Indexed keywords

ALZHEIMER DISEASE; ANALYTIC METHOD; ANXIETY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUNTINGTON CHOREA; INTELLIGENCE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; VALIDATION PROCESS; VERBAL COMMUNICATION;

DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 0141761591     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617703960140     Document Type: Article

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