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Publication Date: 1994
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Assessing Predictions of Violence: Being Accurate about Accuracy.
Mossman, Douglas
Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, v62 n4 p783-92 Aug 1994
Critiques violence prediction via methods for quantifying accuracy that fail to control for base rates or biases and describes how receiver-operating characteristic analysis can compensate. Via reanalysis of datasets from previously published studies suggests that mental health professionals' violence predictions are substantially more accurate than chance. (Author/CRR)
Publication Type: Information Analyses; Journal Articles
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Language: English
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