Testing the predictive utility of the STATIC-99: A Bayes analysis

Legal and Criminological Psychology

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 187-200

  Beauregard, Eric ^a   Mieczkowski, Tom ^b  

^a SIMON FRASER UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; CANADA; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MENTAL HEALTH CARE; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRISON; PROBABILITY; RECIDIVISM; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCORING SYSTEM; SEXUAL CRIME; STATIC 99; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

EID: 71549146305     PISSN: 13553259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1348/135532508X330994     Document Type: Article

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