Testing measurement equivalence of neurocognitive assessments across language in the Hispanic Community Health Study/Study of Latinos.

Neuropsychological instruments are often developed in English and translated to other languages to facilitate the clinical evaluation of diverse populations or to utilize in research environments. However, the psychometric equivalence of these assessments across language must be demonstrated before populations can validly be compared.To test this equivalence, we applied measurement invariance procedures to a subsample (N = 1,708) of the Hispanic...