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The Mathematics of Risk Classification: Changing Data into Valid Instruments for Juvenile Courts
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The Mathematics of Risk Classification: Changing Data into Valid Instruments for Juvenile Courts
Publication year:
2005
| Cataloged on:
Oct. 31, 2006
ANNOTATION: Guidance for developing effective risk-screening tools by juvenile courts is provided. Sections cover: report background; general method; methods of combining predictors (e.g., linear addictive models, configural or clustering methods, and "bootstrap" methods); data used; development and validation of operational instruments; and comparison of methods (e.g., predictive efficiency and operational utility, summary of results, removing invidious predictors, and which method?). "A court might find any of the methods tested useful in developing a risk classification procedure" (p. 31).