Prediction in Forensic and Neuropsychology (eBook, ePUB)

Sound Statistical Practices
Redaktion: Franklin, Ronald D.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Psychologists are under increasing pressure to demonstrate the ecological validity of their assessment procedures--to show that the recommendations concluding their evaluations are relevant to urgent concerns in the legal and social policy arenas, such as predicting dangerousness, awarding compensation, and choosing a custodial parent. How much damage does a referred patient have? Who or what "caused" the damage? What impact will it have on his or her future life, work, and family? And what can be done to remediate the damage?

The purpose of this book is to provide sound objective methods for answering these questions. It integrates the knowledge of experienced practitioners who offer state-of-the-art summaries of the best current approaches to evaluating difficult cases with that of basic theorists who describe emerging methods in both predictive and inferential statistics, such as Bayesian networks, that have proven their value in other scientific fields. Arguably, the enterprise of psychological assessment is so interdependent with that of data analysis that attempts to make inferences without consideration of statistical implications is malpractice. Prediction in Forensic and Neuropsychology: Sound Statistical Practices clarifies the process of hypothesis testing and helps to push the clinical interpretation of psychological data into the 21st century. It constitutes a vital resource for all the stakeholders in the assessment process--practitioners, researchers, attorneys, and policymakers.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135669706
• Artikelnr.: 38456091

Autorenporträt

Ronald D. Franklin

Inhaltsangabe

Contents: Preface. Introduction. C.A. Ruffalo
Advocacy in the Forensic Practice of Neuropsychology. R.D. Franklin
Neuropsychological Hypothesis Testing. R.D. Franklin
J. Krueger
Bayesian Inference and Belief Networks. R.D. Franklin
J. Krueger
Neuropsychological Evaluations as Statistical Evidence. G.J. Chelune
Assessing Reliable Neuropsychological Change. A. von Eye
C. Speil
M.J. Rovine
Configural Frequency Analysis in the Practice of Neuropsychology. M.L. Rohling
J. Langhinrichsen-Rohling
L.S. Miller
Actuarial Assessment of Malingering: Rohling's Interpretive Method. A. Kivioja
R.D. Franklin
Recovery of Function. S. Ke Jesus-Zayas
A.B. Fleming
The Prediction of Violent Behavior.