Failure of the FBS to predict malingering of somatic symptoms: Response to critiques by Greve and Bianchini and Lees Haley and Fox [2]

Archives of Clinical Neuropsychology

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 341-345

  Arbisi, Paul A ^a   Butcher, James N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA   (United States)

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Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ANALYTICAL ERROR; CLINICAL PRACTICE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; EMPIRICISM; FAKE BAD SCALE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALINGERING; MINNESOTA MULTIPHASIC PERSONALITY INVENTORY; OUTCOMES RESEARCH; PREDICTION; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SYMPTOM; SYSTEM ANALYSIS; TECHNIQUE; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 1642386120     PISSN: 08876177     EISSN: 18735843     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.acn.2003.12.003     Document Type: Letter

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