Simultaneous confirmatory factor analysis of the Wechsler Memory Scale - Revised for two standardization samples: A comparison of groups from Japan and the United States

Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology

Volumn 26, Issue 5, 2004, Pages 645-652

  Omura, Kazufumi ^a   Sugishita, Morihiro ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b Institute of Brain and Blood VesselsMihara Memorial Hospital   (Japan)

^c NONE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COMPARATIVE STUDY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE TEST; JAPAN; MEMORY; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECALL; UNITED STATES; VISUAL MEMORY;

ATTENTION; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; JAPAN; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REFERENCE STANDARDS; UNITED STATES; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 4844226314     PISSN: 13803395     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13803390490504272     Document Type: Article

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