Research Article

The Pattern Element Scale: A Brief Tool of Traditional Medical Subtyping for Dementia

Table 3

The canonical correlation coefficient and -test between score of subscales in PES and cognition measures of MMSE.

Canonical variable Canonical correlations Wilk’s lambda Chi-SQ DF Sig.

10.5070.59285.433 42 0.000
20.327 0.797 37.041 30 0.176
30.267 0.892 18.562 20 0.55
40.152 0.961 6.463 12 0.891
50.123 0.984 2.632 6 0.853
60.028 0.999 0.132 2 0.936

MMSE: minimental state examination; PES: pattern element scale.