Towards an improved measure of the Edinburgh Handedness Inventory: A one-factor congeneric measurement model using confirmatory factor analysis

Laterality

Volumn 9, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 411-419

  Dragovic, Milan ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b Ctr Clin Res in Neuropsychiat   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CHI SQUARE TEST; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DRAWING; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; FEMALE; HANDEDNESS; HEMISPHERIC DOMINANCE; HUMAN; LEFT HANDEDNESS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEASUREMENT; RIGHT HANDEDNESS; SCHIZOPHRENIA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; WRITING;

ADULT; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; FEMALE; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMETRICS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS;

EID: 8644249083     PISSN: 1357650X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13576500342000248     Document Type: Article

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