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Cross-Validation of a Learning Test for use with Elderly Psychiatric Patients

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  08 February 2018

William K. Caird
Affiliation:
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Robert E. Sanderson
Affiliation:
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
James Inglis
Affiliation:
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
William K. Caird
Affiliation:
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
Robert E. Sanderson
Affiliation:
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario
James Inglis
Affiliation:
Queen's University, Kingston, Ontario

Extract

One of the obvious requirements of a clinical test which purports to assess any aspect of the impairment of behaviour is that of cross-validation; it should be able to discriminate between different groups of patients similar to those on which it was first standardized. This paper reports such cross-validation of a paired-associate learning test which Inglis (1959) has shown to discriminate between groups of elderly psychiatric patients with and without memory disorder.

Type
Psychological
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1962 

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