Citation

Kirby BC. Am. J. Sociol. 1954; 59(6): 539-550.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1954, University of Chicago Press)

DOI

10.1086/221440

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

From the records of 455 federal parolees data were taken on nineteen items. Prediction tables were prepared by a method of the type of Burgess and others, using the discriminant function, a multiple correlation technique. The latter method achieved some improvement in predictive efficiency, plus three theoretical advantages: in selecting and weighting predictors, and exact measure of association is employed, the statistical characteristics of which are defined; the predictor weights are proportional to the contribution of the variable to the total variance in the criterion; information is exploited regarding association among the predictors as well as between them and the criterion.