A taxometric approach to base-rate estimation and idiographic classification in psycholegal research.

Published in: Law and human behavior (2022)

If legal categories of interest represent nonarbitrary classes, taxometric methods afford an analytic approach by which researchers can use fallible indicator variables to estimate their base rates and develop algorithms for legal classification. We discuss potential objections to the taxometric approach and identify important avenues for future research and development in psycholegal applications of taxometric methods. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2022 APA, all rights reserved).

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