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Alcoholism and the Patterning of Outcome: a multivariate analysis
Author(s) -
TAYLOR COLIN,
BROWN DAVID,
DUCKITT ANITA,
EDWARDS GRIFFITH,
OPPENHEIMER EDNA,
SHEEHAN MARGARET
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
british journal of addiction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.424
H-Index - 193
eISSN - 1360-0443
pISSN - 0952-0481
DOI - 10.1111/j.1360-0443.1986.tb00409.x
Subject(s) - outcome (game theory) , multivariate statistics , multivariate analysis , abstinence , set (abstract data type) , psychology , principal component analysis , quality (philosophy) , medicine , computer science , statistics , psychiatry , mathematics , economics , philosophy , epistemology , microeconomics , programming language
Summary This study takes a particular data set deriving from 10‐year follow‐up information on 68 male alcoholics as basis for exploring patterns of outcome in multivariate terms. A Principal Components Analysis demonstrates that degree of dependence is intrinsic to the patterning of outcome. The overall relationship between dependence and holistic outcome is a ‘Janus’ effect: high dependence may be related either to good or to bad outcome in different circumstances. When there is good outcome in terms simply of abstinence, dependence then further predicts within abstinent patients the overall quality of outcome which will be achieved. The need for a multivariate model is underlined.