Use of a multiple regression equation to estimate organic impairment from Wechsler scale scores
✍ Scribed by Michael L. Hirt; Richard A. Cook
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1962
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 148 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0021-9762
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✦ Synopsis
Studies of the effectiveness of the Wechsler intelligence scales in detecting organic brain damage have led to a variety of conclusions summarized by Klebanoff (5), Yates(7), and Wechsler (6). Differences in these conclusions are due primarily to the varied criteria of organic brain damage adopted in these studies and differences in statistical analyses of the data. I n view of these differences further studies with more refined criteria measures and more rigorous statistical techniques are in order. In previous 3 -4 ) , the senior author found the Grassi(1) Block Substitution Test t o be a sensitive measure of organic impairment, Because of its sensitivity and because it is readily quantifiable, it has been used as the criterion of organic brain damage in this study. The specific problem of this study was to develop regression weights for some of the Wechsler sub-tests which would predict Grassi scores.