TABLE 2.
Correlations Between Intercept Values on the Four “Deficit” Subtests and Slope Values on the Three “Developmental Lag” Subtests of the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Revised Among Future Schizophrenia Case Subjects and Healthy Comparison Subjects
| Intercept on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Revised | Slope on the Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children–Revised | Correlation
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Analysis
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Future Schizophrenia Case Subjects (N=35) | Healthy Comparison Subjects (N=556) | Difference Between Two Independent Correlations (z)a | p | ||
| Vocabulary | Block design | 0.78 | 0.42 | 3.33 | 0.00 |
| Arithmetic | 0.80 | 0.59 | 2.28 | 0.01 | |
| Digit symbol | 0.55 | 0.27 | 1.83 | 0.03 | |
| Picture completion | Block design | 0.80 | 0.58 | 2.44 | 0.01 |
| Arithmetic | 0.57 | 0.41 | 1.17 | 0.12 | |
| Digit symbol | 0.52 | 0.21 | 2.03 | 0.02 | |
| Similarities | Block design | 0.57 | 0.43 | 0.97 | 0.17 |
| Arithmetic | 0.72 | 0.52 | 1.80 | 0.04 | |
| Digit symbol | 0.57 | 0.26 | 2.09 | 0.02 | |
| Information | Block design | 0.53 | 0.51 | 0.12 | 0.45 |
| Arithmetic | 0.67 | 0.65 | 0.27 | 0.39 | |
| Digit symbol | 0.28 | 0.28 | −0.01 | 0.50 | |
| Average correlation | 0.61 | 0.43 | 1.53 | 0.06 | |
Analyses performed for differences between correlations after Fisher’s r-to-z transformation of correlations (one-tailed test).