European and American WAIS III norms: Cross-national differences in performance subtest scores

Intelligence

Volumn 38, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 187-192

  Roivainen, Eka ^a  

^a OULU DEACONESS INSTITUTE   (Finland)

Author keywords

Cross national; Intelligence; Norms; WAIS III

Indexed keywords

EID: 72049133402     PISSN: 01602896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.intell.2009.10.001     Document Type: Article

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