A New Lease of Life for Thomson's Bonds Model of Intelligence

Psychological Review

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 567-579

  Bartholomew, David J ^a   Deary, Ian J ^b   Lawn, Martin ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

bonds; Charles Spearman; factor analysis; Godfrey Thomson; intelligence

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE TEST; NONPARAMETRIC TEST; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; STANDARD; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS;

FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE TESTS; MODELS, STATISTICAL; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS, NONPARAMETRIC;

EID: 67651011782     PISSN: 0033295X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0016262     Document Type: Article

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