WCST: Wisconsin Card Sorting Test

In PASWR2: Probability and Statistics with R, Second Edition

Description

The following data are the test scores from a group of 50 patients from the Virgen del Camino Hospital (Pamplona, Spain) on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test.

Usage

WCST

Format

A data frame with 50 observations on the following variable:

• score (score on the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test)

Details

The “Wisconsin Card Sorting Test” is widely used by psychiatrists, neurologists, and neuropsychologists with patients who have a brain injury, neurodegenerative disease, or a mental illness such as schizophrenia. Patients with any sort of frontal lobe lesion generally do poorly on the test.

References

Ugarte, M. D., Militino, A. F., and Arnholt, A. T. 2015. Probability and Statistics with R, Second Edition. Chapman & Hall / CRC.

Examples

ggplot(data = WCST, aes(x = score)) + geom_density(fill = "lightblue", alpha = 0.8, 
color ="blue")

Example output

Loading required package: lattice
Loading required package: ggplot2

PASWR2 documentation built on Sept. 5, 2021, 5:44 p.m.