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Johnson, James H.; And Others – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1980
Patients were classified into categories using Spitzer and Endicott's computer program for diagnosis. Analyses of variance using single and grouped scales and discriminant analyses predicting category membership suggested that narrow band categorization is better predicted by the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory than is broad band…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Diagnostic Tests, Man Machine Systems

Holmes, Cooper B.; And Others – Journal of Clinical Psychology, 1982
Assessed five alcoholism scales derived from the Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory for their ability to classify accurately alcoholics and non-alcoholic psychiatric patients. The alcoholic group was divided into self-committed and court-committed. Depending on how the data were treated, found only one, or none of the scales accurate.…
Descriptors: Alcoholism, Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Diagnostic Tests