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Introduction
This chapter demonstrates how cluster analysis can be applied alongside other
multivariate techniques to test hypotheses about memory development in youth.
Memory assessment is typically part of a neuropsychological evaluation, and
therefore, clinicians may have large datasets comprised of scores on standardized
memory batteries. Neuropsychologists who have an interest in disseminating
research will find cluster analysis a useful method to discern meaningful patterns
within their data. Although memory is specifically examined in this chapter, the
reader should be able to generalize the techniques illustrated here with other tests
and the neuropsychological constructs that they measure. Several of the techniques
described in Chap. 2 are used to derive and test cluster solutions. The cluster solutions
themselves are then used as guidelines to identify parameters of memory trajectories
in developing youth.
Chapter 4
Identifying Neurodevelopmental Stages
of Memory from Childhood Through
Adolescence with Cluster Analysis
Nicholas S. Thaler, Daniel N. Allen, Cecil R. Reynolds, and Joan Mayfield
N.S. Thaler, M.A.
Department of Psychology, University of Nevada Las Vegas, 455030, 4505 Maryland
Parkway, Las Vegas, NV, 89154, USA
e-mail: nick.thaler@gmail.com
D.N. Allen, Ph.D. (*)
Neuropsychology Research Program, Department of Psychology, University of Nevada
Las Vegas, 455030, 4505 Maryland Parkway, Las Vegas, NV, 89154, USA
e-mail: daniel.allen@unlv.edu
C.R. Reynolds, Ph.D.
Texas A&M University, 555 E. 5th St. Apt 3001, Austin, TX, 78701, USA
e-mail: crrh@earthlink.net
J. Mayfield, Ph.D.
Our Children’s House at Baylor, 3301 Swiss Avenue, Dallas, TX, 75204, USA
e-mail: JoanM@baylorhealth.edu