Use of Clustering Techniques in Deriving Psychoeducational Profiles.

This study explores whether a synthesis of clinical and statistical data taken from the psychoeducational reports completed on a group of 42, 9- to 11-year-old boys referred to a Child Psychiatric Outpatient Department for school-learning problems, would yield discrete clinical categories or cluster...

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Publicado en:Contemporary Educational Psychology Vol. 7; no. 1; pp. 81 - 90
Autores principales: Sinclair, Esther, Kheifets, Leeka
Formato: Artículo
Publicado: Academic Press Inc. Jan1982
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