TY  - JOUR
PY  - 1954//
TI  - Parole Prediction Using Multiple Correlation
JO  - American journal of sociology
A1  - Kirby, Bernard C.
SP  - 539
EP  - 550
VL  - 59
IS  - 6
N2  - 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.<p />
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SN  - 0002-9602
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/221440
ID  - ref1
ER  -