Application of latent variable methods to the study of cognitive decline when tests change over time

Epidemiology

Volumn 26, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 878-887

  Gross, Alden L ^a,b   Power, Melinda C ^a   Albert, Marilyn S ^c   Deal, Jennifer A ^a   Gottesman, Rebecca F ^a,c   Griswold, Michael ^a,d   Wruck, Lisa M ^e   Mosley, Thomas H ^f   Coresh, Josef ^a   Sharrett, A Richey ^a   Bandeen Roche, Karen ^b,c  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS BLOOMBERG SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^e University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MISSISSIPPI SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; COGNITION; COGNITIVE AGING; COGNITIVE DEFECT; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACTOR ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT ERROR; MEMORY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOMETRY; SCORING SYSTEM; STRUCTURAL EQUATION MODELING; TASK PERFORMANCE; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT ANALYSIS; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MIDDLE AGED; PSYCHOLOGY; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; VERY ELDERLY;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COGNITION; COGNITION DISORDERS; COHORT STUDIES; DIABETES MELLITUS; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; MEMORY; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

EID: 84990922603     PISSN: 10443983     EISSN: 15315487     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/EDE.0000000000000379     Document Type: Article

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