Analysis of WAIS-IV index score scatter using significant deviation from the mean index score

Assessment

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 168-177

  Grégoire, Jacques ^a   Coalson, Diane L ^b   Zhu, Jianjun ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b PEARSON   (United States)

Author keywords

index; intelligence; scatter; WAIS IV

Indexed keywords

AGED; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDER; PSYCHOMETRY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; CONFIDENCE INTERVALS; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; MEMORY; MEMORY DISORDERS; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; STATISTICS AS TOPIC; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 79955890506     PISSN: 10731911     EISSN: 15523489     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1073191110386343     Document Type: Article

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