Technical and Practical Issues in the Structure and Clinical Invariance of the Wechsler Scales: A Rejoinder to Commentaries

Journal of Psychoeducational Assessment

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 235-243

  Weiss, Lawrence G ^a   Keith, Timothy Z ^b   Zhu, Jianjun ^a   Chen, Hsinyi ^c  

^a PEARSON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

arithmetic; CHC; factor structure; WAIS IV; WISC IV

Indexed keywords

EID: 84876249525     PISSN: 07342829     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734282913478050     Document Type: Article

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