Mayo's Older African American Normative Studies: Confirmatory factor analysis of a core battery

Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 184-191

  Pedraza, Otto ^a,b   Lucas, John A ^b,c   Smith, Glenn E ^b   Willis, Floyd B ^b   Graff Radford, Neill R ^b   Ferman, Tanis J ^b   Petersen, Ronald C ^b   Bowers, Dawn ^a   Ivnik, Robert J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^c MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

Author keywords

AVLT; Cross cultural assessment; Factor analysis; MOAANS; MOANS; WAIS R; WMS R

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; COVARIANCE; DATA ANALYSIS; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; MENTAL CONCENTRATION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NORMAL HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STRUCTURE ANALYSIS; VALIDATION PROCESS; VERBAL MEMORY;

EID: 17644420305     PISSN: 13556177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S1355617705050204     Document Type: Article

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