• DOI:10.1037/0003-066X.50.4.266
Corpus ID: 1628745

Bootstraps taxometrics. Solving the classification problem in psychopathology.

@article{Meehl1995BootstrapsTS,
  title={Bootstraps taxometrics. Solving the classification problem in psychopathology.},
  author={P. Meehl},
  journal={The American psychologist},
  year={1995},
  volume={50 4},
  pages={
          266-75
        }
}

• P. Meehl
• Published 1995
• Psychology, Medicine
• The American psychologist

Classification in psychopathology is a problem in applied mathematics; it answers the empirical question "Is the latent structure of these phenotypic indicator correlations taxonic (categories) or nontaxonic (dimensions, factors)?" It is not a matter of convention or preference. Two taxometric procedures, MAMBAC and MAXCOV-HITMAX, provide independent tests of the taxonic conjecture and satisfactorily accurate estimates of the taxon base rate, the latent means, and the valid and false-positive… Expand

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