What clinicians really need to know about symptom exaggeration, insufficient effort, and malingering: Statistical and measurement matters

Neuropsychology of Malingering Casebook

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 21-37

  Millis, Scott R ^a  

^a WAYNE STATE UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

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EID: 84917112458     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203890042     Document Type: Chapter

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