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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Psychol Aging. 2010 Sep;25(3):545–559. doi: 10.1037/a0018498

Table 5.

Table 5a
Logistic Regression Analyses of the ability of Incongruent Color Naming Errors to improve predictability of DAT (Healthy Old vs. Very Mild DAT) beyond predictions based upon current psychometric tests.
Psychometric Test Initial
regression
model
Nagelkerke R2 After adding
incongruent color
naming errors

Initial χ2(1) Initial R2 Δ χ2 Δ R2 Total R2
Logical Memorya 6.70* .099 16.39* .215 .314
Delayed Logical Memory 8.30* .122 15.87* .205 .327
Associate Recognition 11.30* .164 12.20* .155 .319
Associate Recalla 7.03* .105 17.15* .222 .327
Selective Reminding Task 16.76* .245 9.65* .121 .366
Trail Making (Form A)a 0.36 .006 22.16* .301 .307
Trail Making (Form B)a 8.58* .126 12.56* .164 .290
WAIS-R Digit Symbola 6.72* .100 14.37* .190 .290
Forward Digit Spana 0.23 .003 20.97* .288 .291
Backward Digit Spana 3.87* .058 17.57* .236 .294
WAIS-R Block Designa 9.20* .135 13.06* .169 .304
Benton Copy (Form D)a 1.19 .018 20.97* .285 .303
WAIS-R Informationa 3.64^ .055 17.65* .237 .292
Boston Naming Testa 5.74* .086 15.85* .210 .296
Animal Fluency 3.80^ .057 17.21* .232 .289
Word Fluency a 6.49* .096 15.05* .199 .295
Mini Mental State Exam 8.15* .120 14.10* .184 .304
National Adult Reading Test 2.96^ .045 17.95* .243 .288
Table 5b
Logistic Regression Analyses of the ability of current psychometric tests to improve predictability of DAT (Healthy Old vs. Very Mild DAT) beyond predictions based upon Incongruent Color Naming Errors.

Initial regression
model
Nagelkerke
R2
After adding Individual Psychometric Battery Predictors

Initial χ2(1) Initial R2 Variable Δ χ2 Δ R2 Total
R2
20.90* .287 Logical Memorya 2.19 .027 .314
20.90* .287 Delayed Logical Memory 3.26^ .040 .327
20.90* .287 Associate Recognition 2.56 .032 .319
20.90* .287 Associate Recalla 3.33^ .040 .327
20.90* .287 Selective Reminding Task 6.27* .079 .366
20.90* .287 Trail Making (Form A)a 1.61 .020 .307
20.90* .287 Trail Making (Form B)a 0.24 .003 .290
20.90* .287 WAIS-R Digit Symbola 0.19 .003 .290
20.90* .287 Forward Digit Spana 0.30 .004 .291
20.90* .287 Backward Digit Spana 0.54 .007 .294
20.90* .287 WAIS-R Block Designa 1.35 .017 .304
20.90* .287 Benton Copy (Form D)a 1.26 .016 .303
20.90* .287 WAIS-R Informationa 0.38 .005 .292
20.90* .287 Boston Naming Testa 0.69 .009 .296
20.90* .287 Animal Fluency 0.10 .002 .289
20.90* .287 Word Fluencya 0.63 .008 .295
20.90* .287 Mini Mental State Exam 1.34 .017 .304
20.90* .287 National Adult Reading Test 0.00 .001 .288

Note.

a

denotes tasks used by Balota et al. (in press).

*

p < .05.

^

p <.10

WAIS-R = Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test—Revised. The Δ χ2 column indicates the increment in χ2 statistics after adding Incongruent Color Naming errors in the second step of the model.

Note.

a

denotes tasks used by Balota et al.(in press).

*

p < .05.

^

p < .10.

WAIS-R = Wechsler Adult Intelligence Test—Revised. The Δ χ2 column indicates the increment in χ2 statistics after adding psychometric tests in the second step of the model.