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Campbell, David P. – J Counseling Psychol, 1969
Descriptors: Classification, Criteria, Prediction, Predictive Validity
Peer reviewedRhodes, William M. – Evaluation Review, 1985
Prediction of success in a special program often guides program participant selection and treatment. If the statistical analysis used to develop such predictions is based on the special selectivity built into the program, the predictions can be misleading and the validation tests uninformative. Federal district court pretrial release data is used…
Descriptors: Cohort Analysis, Criminals, Mathematical Models, Predictive Validity
