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Who needs cutting points?
Author(s) -
Lindeboom Jaap
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/1097-4679(198907)45:4<679::aid-jclp2270450427>3.0.co;2-l
Subject(s) - discriminative model , base (topology) , psychology , statistics , confidence interval , artificial intelligence , computer science , mathematics , mathematical analysis
Individual scores of discriminative tests can be connected to an estimate of the confidence of classification, which obviates the need for cutting points. Such estimates can be corrected for base rate conditions. It is suggested that, while base rates are largely imponderable, the prior probabilities of individual cases are not.