The links below will take you to a variety of resources maintained by the Mental Health Research Institute's Biostatistics and Psychometrics Unit.
An excel spreadsheet for calculating a wide range of indices of screening and diagnostic test performance as well as indices of inter-rater agreement.
The Psychogeriatric Assessment Scales
A graphical method for combining results from the Mini-Mental State Examination and the Informant Questionnaire for COgnitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE) designed to improve performance in screening for dementia over either test used alone.
A graphical method for combining results from the Mini-Mental State Examination and the Informant Questionnaire for COgnitive Decline in the Elderly (IQCODE) designed to improve performance in screening for dementia over either test used alone.
French Language Adaptation of the National Adult Reading Test
Details of a test to estimate premorbid intellectual ability in French speakers. This test relies on the same principles as the English language "National Adult Reading Test."
APS College of Clinical Neuropsychologists Conference 2001
PowerPoint Slides from the keynote address "Between a ROC and a hard place: assessing the performance of screening and diagnostic tests" and resources from the workshop on screening presented at the conference.
Cognitive Aging Conference 2002 Atlanta, Georgia
Poster entitled "A Common Cause for the Common Cause Hypothesis" presented at the 2002 Cognitive Aging Conference. (In Adobe Acrobat format).
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