Clinical Versus Statistical Prediction: A Theoretical Analysis and a Review of the Evidence

by Paul E Meehl

Book Overview

Clinical versus Statistical Prediction is Paul Meehl's famous examination of benefits and disutilities related to the different ways of combining information to make predictions. It is a clarifying analysis as relevant today as when it first appeared.

A major methodological problem for clinical psychology concerns the relation between clinical and actuarial methods of arriving at diagnoses and predicting behavior. Without prejudging...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0963878492
• ISBN13: 9780963878496
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Echo Point Books & Media
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 7.5" x 9.3"