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A Note on Selective Intervention
Author(s) -
Cox D. R.,
Solomon P. J.
Publication year - 1988
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series a (statistics in society)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.103
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-985X
pISSN - 0964-1998
DOI - 10.2307/2982759
Subject(s) - intervention (counseling) , psychology , computer science , psychiatry
SUMMARY The relative merits of selective versus broad‐based intervention programmes are studied analytically. Under some highly idealised assumptions very selective programmes are optimal only rather exceptionally, namely when a sensitive risk score is available for the isolation of high risk individuals and when a selective programme is much more likely to decrease an individual risk score than is a broad‐based approach.