The Egyptian Journal of Neurology, Psychiatry and Neurosurgery

Table 1 Test-retest reliability (N = 20).

From: A model of cognitive evaluation battery for diagnosis of mild cognitive impairment and dementia in educated and illiterate Egyptian elderly people

Variable	Reliability coefficient
Variable	Pearson Correlation	Spearman’s rho
MMSE	0.97	0.78
DSMIV dementia	1.0	1.0
Semantic fluency	0.86	0.94
Verbal learning	0.96	0.90
VL total easy	0.98	0.83
VL total hard	0.85	0.81
VL 1^st trial total	0.92	0.93
VL 1^st trial easy	0.83	0.82
VL 1^st trial hard	0.78	0.77
VL 2^nd trial total	0.94	0.88
VL 2^nd trial easy	0.83	0.99
VL 2^nd trial hard	0.88	0.86
VL 3^rd trial total	0.86	0.86
VL 3^rd trial easy	0.87	0.99
VL 3^rd trial hard	0.80	0.82
DI total	0.94	0.91
DI. easy	0.45	0.19
DI. hard	0.81	0.79
DR total	0.90	0.72
DR easy	0.91	0.71
DR hard	0.90	0.66
Word recognition	0.89	0.75
WRNP	----	----
BG copy	0.10	0.10
BG recall	0.34	0.45
Set shifting lines	----	----
Set shifting time	0.88	0.66
DS forward	0.69	0.64
DS backward	0.65	0.59
Semantic spherical	0.21	0.12
Lexical fluency	0.63	0.58
CN total	1.0	1.0
CN correct	0.92	0.82
CN stimulus cue	0.91	0.71
CN phonemic cue	1.0	1.0
Abstraction	----	----
Judgment	----	----

VL verbal learning, DI distractor interval, DR delayed recall, WRNP word recognition novel prototype, BG Bender Gestalt, DS digit span, CN confrontation naming

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