WCST {PASWR}

Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

Description

The following data are the test scores from a group of 50 patients from the Virgen del Camino Hospital (Pamplona, Spain) on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test.

Format

A data frame with 50 observations on the following variable:

score

score on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

Details

The “Wisconsin Card Sorting Test” is widely used by psychiatrists, neurologists, and neuropsychologists with patients who have a brain injury, neurodegenerative disease, or a mental illness such as schizophrenia. Patients with any sort of frontal lobe lesion generally do poorly on the test.

Source

Ugarte, M. D., Militino, A. F., and Arnholt, A. T. (2008) Probability and Statistics with R. Chapman & Hall/CRC.

Examples

densityplot(~score, data = WCST, ref = TRUE)