Clarifying Problems and Offering Solutions for Correlated Error When Assessing the Validity of Selected-Subtest Short Forms

Psychological Assessment

Volumn 20, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 76-80

  Girard, Todd A ^a,b   Christensen, Bruce K ^b,c  

^a RYERSON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b CENTRE FOR ADDICTION AND MENTAL HEALTH   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

Author keywords

corrected part whole correlation; short form validity; Wechsler Intelligence scales

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; LEVY EQUATION; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; VALIDATION PROCESS; VALIDITY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ADULT; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 40949112313     PISSN: 10403590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/1040-3590.20.1.76     Document Type: Article

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