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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2015 Jun 1.
Published in final edited form as: J Exp Psychol Gen. 2013 Nov 11;143(3):1026–1048. doi: 10.1037/a0034847

Table 2.

Estimates of first occasion reliability (Rel), stability correlation between the first and third occasion (r13), and reliability of the difference between the first and third occasion (D13Rel) for individual variables, composite variables, and latent variables in three age groups

Age 18–39 Age 40–64 Age 65–99
Rel r13 D13Rel Rel r13 D13Rel Rel r13 D13Rel
Memory
 Recall .64 .66 −.06 .78 .55 .51 .79 .51 .57
 Paired Associates .71 .71 .00 .73 .61 .31 .78 .61 .44
 Logical Memory .79 .68 .34 .79 .61 .46 .72 .54 .39
Composite .84 .81 .16 .86 .71 .52 .86 .68 .56
Latent variable .99 .89 .91 .97 .85 .80 .96 .73 .85
Speed
 Digit Symbol .85 .81 .21 .88 .74 .54 .87 .68 .59
 Pattern Comparison .88 .59 .71 .71 .52 .40 .80 .60 .50
 Letter Comparison .80 .63 .46 .78 .59 .46 .85 .59 .63
Composite .92 .77 .65 .88 .74 .54 .91 .69 .71
Latent variable 1.00 .89 1.00 .96 .85 .73 .95 .81 .74
Vocabulary
 Definition .90 .84 .38 .91 .74 .65 .85 .57 .65
 Picture .96 .90 .60 .91 .86 .36 .92 .69 .74
 Synonym .86 .78 .36 .84 .85 −.07 .85 .69 .52
 Antonym .89 .72 .61 .81 .79 .10 .77 .70 .23
Composite .96 .92 .50 .94 .92 .25 .95 .79 .76
Latent variable .99 .98 .50 .99 .98 .50 1.00 .90 1.00
Reasoning
 Matrix Reasoning .83 .75 .32 .75 .66 .26 .62 .64 −.06
 Shipley .83 .82 .06 .87 .80 .35 .78 .70 .27
 Letter Sets .76 .71 .17 .83 .65 .51 .69 .65 .11
Composite .89 .87 .15 .91 .86 .36 .84 .82 .11
Latent variable .96 .93 .43 .97 .95 .40 .97 .94 .50
Space
 Spatial Relations .74 .88 −1.17 .82 .81 .05 .81 .71 .34
 Paper Folding .79 .78 .05 .72 .65 .20 .65 .54 .24
 Form Boards .84 .76 .33 .77 .62 .39 .59 .59 .00
Composite .91 .89 .18 .89 .84 .31 .82 .75 .28
Latent variable 1.00 .95 1.00 1.00 .95 1.00 .95 .87 .62
Medians
 Individual Variables .83 .76 .33 .80 .66 .38 .79 .63 .41
 Composite Variables .91 .87 .18 .89 .84 .36 .86 .75 .56
 Latent Variables .99 .93 .91 .97 .95 .73 .96 .87 .74

Note: Rel. refers to test-retest reliability over a period of about 1 week with data from Salthouse and Tucker-Drob (2008), r13 is the (stability) correlation between scores on the first and third longitudinal occasion, and D13Rel is estimated reliability of the difference between the T1 and T3 scores as computed from [(Rel. − r13)/(1−r13)].