TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1993//
TI  - Suicide prediction revisited
JO  - Suicide and life-threatening behavior
A1  - Pokorny, A. D.
SP  - 1
EP  - 10
VL  - 23
IS  - 1
N2  - Data from a 1983 prospective study of suicide in a cohort of 4,800 psychiatric inpatients were reanalyzed using logistic regression, which is more appropriate for a binary outcome. The results were the same as in the previous study: too few of the subsequent suicides were identified and there were too many false positives to make this procedure useful. Several additional "artificial" logistic regression analyses were done: one series randomly removed increasing numbers of nonsuicide cases to increase the base rates; another series added an increasingly powerful hypothetical "test." Both of these maneuvers helped, but fell well short of perfection.
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SN  - 0363-0234
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/
ID  - ref1
ER  -