Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using neuropsychological testing improved by multivariate analyses
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Diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease using neuropsychological testing improved by multivariate analyses.
Neuropsychological assessment aids in the diagnosis of Alzheimer's disease (AD) by objectively establishing cognitive impairment from standardized tests. We present new criteria for diagnosis that use weighted combined scores from multiple tests. Our method employs two multivariate analyses: principal components analysis (PCA) and discriminant analysis. PCA (N = 216 participants) created more i...
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عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Clinical and Experimental Neuropsychology
سال: 2010
ISSN: 1380-3395,1744-411X
DOI: 10.1080/13803390903540315