Detecting dissociations in single-case studies: Type I errors, statistical power and the classical versus strong distinction

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2249-2258

  Crawford, John R ^a   Garthwaite, Paul H ^b  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Classical dissociations; Monte Carlo simulation; Single case studies; Statistical methods; Strong dissociations

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDER; HUMAN; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NEUROPSYCHOLOGY; NORMAL HUMAN; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DATA INTERPRETATION, STATISTICAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS; HUMANS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS;

EID: 33745968786     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.05.019     Document Type: Article

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