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Modal profiles for the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery
J A Moses1, D A Pritchard, R L Adams
1Palo Alto VA Health Care System and Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, Stanford University Medical School, USA.
Abstract:
Modal profile analysis was used to cluster subjects on 11 scores from the Halstead-Reitan Neuropsychological Battery. The final analysis produced 18 modal profile types, of which 12 were replicated in multiple samples of subjects with differing clinical diagnoses. Subjects who had been assigned to modal types according to their correlations with the modal profiles were more similar to the centroid of their assigned groups than to the centroids of all other groups. Assigned subjects were eight times more likely to belong to their assigned groups than to any of the other groups. Fifty-four percent of subjects were assigned to a modal profile group according to the adopted similarity rule. Discussion includes a comparison of the present typology with a similar typology of Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery profiles.