Automated classification of MMPI profiles into psychotic, neurotic or personality disorder types
✍ Scribed by William E. Hatcher
- Book ID
- 103052156
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1978
- Weight
- 178 KB
- Volume
- 8
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0010-468X
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✦ Synopsis
A Fortran program has been developed which can objectively classify Minnesota Multiphasic Inventory (MMPI) profiles as being psychotic, neurotic, personality disorder, or indeterminate types. The method used is a set of configural rules, 'Henrichs' rules for males'. The only input data required are K-corrected T scores, which are the end product of standard scoring techniques. To automate these rules it was necessary to rewrite them so that all decisions were the result of arithmetic comparisons or logical tests using only and, or and not. In particular, examination of the Welsh code, which many rules required, had to be stimulated by the use of several sorted arrays. The program has been carefully tested and is in the use in our computer lab.