Validity of Autism Behavior Checklist (ABC): Preliminary study

Revista Brasileira de Psiquiatria

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2005, Pages 295-301

  Fumagalli Marteleto, Márcia Regina ^a,b   Marcondes Pedromônico, Márcia Regina ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

^b Disciplina de Distúrbios da Comunicação Humana   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Autistic disorder; Diagnosis, differential; Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders; Questionnaires; Validation studies Publication type

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; AUTISM; AUTISM BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL RESEARCH; CONTROLLED STUDY; CRITERION VARIABLE; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; MALE; NEUROLOGIC EXAMINATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; QUESTIONNAIRE; ROC CURVE; SCORING SYSTEM; VALIDATION PROCESS;

EID: 31544478520     PISSN: 15164446     EISSN: 15164446     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/s1516-44462005000400008     Document Type: Article

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