On the Relevance and Limitations of Predictive Models in Clinical Psychology
Following a relevant contribution promoted by the American Psychological Association (Hanson, 2022), prediction statistics in Clinical Psychology represent a series of practices useful to predict the effect of an independent variable on possible outcomes. The study of the relationships between var...
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| description | Following a relevant contribution promoted by the American Psychological Association (Hanson, 2022), prediction statistics in Clinical Psychology represent a series of practices useful to predict the effect of an independent variable on possible outcomes.
The study of the relationships between variables enables predictions and dependencies between variables. Such practices would allow for causal clinical reasoning, but this must be evaluated with rigor and knowledge of the existing limitations. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-6647ef598bde4df38ae73a262af73e252025-08-20T02:10:42ZengUniversity of MessinaMediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology2282-16192025-04-0113310.13129/2282-1619/mjcp-45753911On the Relevance and Limitations of Predictive Models in Clinical PsychologyEmanuele Maria Merlo0Department of Biomedical and Dental Sciences and Morphofunctional Imaging, University of Messina, MessinaFollowing a relevant contribution promoted by the American Psychological Association (Hanson, 2022), prediction statistics in Clinical Psychology represent a series of practices useful to predict the effect of an independent variable on possible outcomes. The study of the relationships between variables enables predictions and dependencies between variables. Such practices would allow for causal clinical reasoning, but this must be evaluated with rigor and knowledge of the existing limitations.https://cab.unime.it/journals/index.php/MJCP/article/view/4575assessmentcausalityclinical psychologypredictive modelsregression analysis. |
| spellingShingle | Emanuele Maria Merlo On the Relevance and Limitations of Predictive Models in Clinical Psychology Mediterranean Journal of Clinical Psychology assessment causality clinical psychology predictive models regression analysis. |
| title | On the Relevance and Limitations of Predictive Models in Clinical Psychology |
| title_full | On the Relevance and Limitations of Predictive Models in Clinical Psychology |
| title_fullStr | On the Relevance and Limitations of Predictive Models in Clinical Psychology |
| title_full_unstemmed | On the Relevance and Limitations of Predictive Models in Clinical Psychology |
| title_short | On the Relevance and Limitations of Predictive Models in Clinical Psychology |
| title_sort | on the relevance and limitations of predictive models in clinical psychology |
| topic | assessment causality clinical psychology predictive models regression analysis. |
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