Practice and Drop-Out Effects during a 17-Year Longitudinal Study of Cognitive Aging

Journals of Gerontology - Series B Psychological Sciences and Social Sciences

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2004, Pages

  Rabbitt, Patrick ^a   Diggle, Peter ^b   Holland, Fiona ^b   McInnes, Lynn ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

^b LANCASTER UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NORTHUMBRIA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; AGING; ARTICLE; CLINICAL PRACTICE; COGNITION; DATA ANALYSIS; DEMOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; LEARNING; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RANDOMIZATION; RECALL; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

EID: 1542373609     PISSN: 10795014     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/geronb/59.2.P84     Document Type: Article

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