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Parsimonious prediction of Wechsler Memory Scale--III memory indices.
- Source :
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Psychological assessment [Psychol Assess] 2000 Dec; Vol. 12 (4), pp. 431-5. - Publication Year :
- 2000
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Abstract
- Equations for prorating the Wechsler Memory Scale--III (WMS-III) Index scores were derived and validated on a sample of 252 mixed clinical cases. Regression equations were performed using age-scaled scores as predictors and the sum of age-scaled scores for Immediate Memory (IM) and General Memory (GM) as the criteria. Including Logical Memory and Verbal Paired Associates with either Faces or Family Pictures resulted in estimated scores that accounted for 95% to 97% of the variance for IM and GM. Over 80% of these cases had estimated sum of scaled scores that fell within 3 points of actual sum of scaled scores, within 1 standard error of measurement. When only Logical Memory and Verbal Paired Associates were included, estimations accounted for only 87% of the variance, and only 60% of the estimated scores fell within 3 points of actual sum of scaled scores. The regression equations are presented, as are the confidence intervals derived from a bootstrapping procedure that created 15,000 different samples.
- Subjects :
- Adult
Aged
Amnesia psychology
Brain Damage, Chronic psychology
Diagnosis, Differential
Female
Humans
Male
Memory, Short-Term
Mental Disorders diagnosis
Mental Disorders psychology
Mental Recall
Middle Aged
Paired-Associate Learning
Psychometrics
Reproducibility of Results
Amnesia diagnosis
Brain Damage, Chronic diagnosis
Wechsler Scales statistics & numerical data
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1040-3590
- Volume :
- 12
- Issue :
- 4
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Psychological assessment
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 11147112