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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Neurobiol Aging. 2009 Nov 18;32(9):1588–1598. doi: 10.1016/j.neurobiolaging.2009.10.013

Table 2.

Standardized path coefficients of each observed variable on its respective latent construct. Amount of variance in the observed variables accounted for by the latent construct is equal to the path coefficient squared.

Path coefficients
Females Males
CR -> Education 0.79 0.93
CR -> WRAT 0.83 0.81
BR -> cranial length 0.69 0.82
BR -> total cranial volume 0.60 0.53
BR -> height 0.34 0.45
Memory -> SRT total 0.87 0.84
Memory -> SRT delayed recall 0.90 0.90
Memory -> SRT delayed recognition 0.62 0.62
Executive/speed -> Color Trails A 0.82 0.89
Executive/speed -> Color Trails B 0.95 0.90
Visual-spatial -> BVRT Recognition 0.85 0.77
Visual-spatial -> BVRT Matching 0.90 0.87
Visual-spatial -> Rosen drawing test 0.61 0.62
Visual-spatial -> Identities/Oddities 0.61 0.64
Language -> BNT spontaneous 0.58 0.73
Language -> Similarities 0.85 0.76
Language -> Letter fluency 0.76 0.58
Language -> Category fluency 0.74 0.64
Language -> Repetition 0.27 0.40
Language -> Comprehension 0.64 0.58

Note: All coefficients are significant as the p < .001 level