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Peer reviewedGarfield, Sol L. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1978
Discussed problems and deficiencies in past research on clinical diagnosis, pertaining to sampling problems with regard to clinical subjects studied, adequacy of control groups, base rates, clinical versus statistical significance, lack of cross-validation, and problems due to reliance on inadequate schemes of classification. Future research is…
Descriptors: Classification, Clinical Diagnosis, Clinical Psychology, Control Groups
