## Abstract The background of Paul E. Meehl's work on clinical versus statistical prediction is reviewed, with detailed analyses of his arguments. Meehl's four main contributions were the following: (a) he put the question, of whether clinical or statistical combinations of psychological data yield
Clinical vs. Statistical Prediction.by Paul E. Meehl
β Scribed by Review by: David L. Wallace
- Book ID
- 125210666
- Publisher
- American Statistical Association
- Year
- 1955
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 285 KB
- Volume
- 50
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0162-1459
- DOI
- 10.2307/2281246
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## Abstract Paul E. Meehl's work comparing statistical versus actuarial predictionβand the large body of research that followed by others on the same topicβwas mainly theoretical and empirical. Meehl also suggested that this work led to a βpracticalβ conclusion, which was quite strong. The author a
## Abstract An Erratum has been published for this article in __Journal of Clinical Psychology__ 62(6) 2006, 777 []. In this special issue, the seminal contributions to clinical psychology of Paul E. Meehl, who passed away in 2003, are commemorated. The nine articles comprising this special issue