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Peer reviewedMossman, Douglas – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 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…
Descriptors: Causal Models, Mental Health Workers, Predictive Validity, Socioeconomic Influences
