Establishing the reliability and validity of neuropsychological disorders with low base rates: Some recommended guidelines
- 1 March 1991
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
- Vol. 13 (2) , 328-338
- https://doi.org/10.1080/01688639108401047
Abstract
The issues of low prevalence in the context of the diagnosis of neuropsychological disorders in the larger community is discussed. Guidelines are proposed for producing reliability and validity estimates which are clinically, as well as statistically meaningful.Keywords
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