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Autor/inn/en | MacKinnon, Douglas R.; Farberow, Norman L. |
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Titel | An Assessment of the Utility of Suicide Prediction |
Quelle | (1976)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift |
Dokumenttyp | gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz |
Schlagwörter | Decision Making; Predictive Validity; Predictor Variables; Psychopathology; Research Projects; Suicide |
Abstract | Applying basic decision theory on a neuropsychiatric hospital population indicates that researchers using a prediction schedule will be unlikely to predict a future suicide beyond a 20 percent level of efficiency. Eliminating false negatives was more practical than eliminating false positives in increasing the efficiency of a predictive schedule. (Author) |
Erfasst von | ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC |
Update | 2004/1/01 |