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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 May 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neuropsychology. 2009 May;23(3):297–306. doi: 10.1037/a0014888

Table 1.

Means (and standard deviations) of scores on tests for healthy older adults and individuals with AD. F and p values reflect one-way ANOVAs.

Test Healthy Older Adults
(N=109)		 Very mild AD
(N=41)		 Mild AD*
(N=10)		 F value
p value
Mini Mental State Exam (MMSE) 29.1
(1.15)		 27.2
(2.37)		 22.8
(4.43)		 66.72**
p<.0001
Reading Span 7.27
(1.60)		 5.59
(1.90)		 4.00
(1.41)		 35.51**
(p<.0001)
Computation Span 8.42
(3.78)		 6.28
(3.47)		 4.33
(2.67)		 21.81**
(p<.0001)
*

complete psychometric data only available from 10 of the 13 mild AD participants

**

all group means differed significantly from one another based on post-hoc tests, p < .001.