The role of prevalence rates, sensitivity, and specificity in assessment accuracy: Rolling the dice in social work process

Journal of Social Service Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 51-75

  Nugent, William R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

Author keywords

Assessment; Diagnosis; Misdiagnosis; Probability of misdiagnosis

Indexed keywords

EID: 16244382534     PISSN: 01488376     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J079v31n02_04     Document Type: Article

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