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A Categorization for the Assessment of Prognosis and Outcome in the Treatment of Alcoholism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 29 January 2018
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For the study reported in the accompanying paper (Willems et al., 1973), a number of variables, thought to be of prognostic relevance in alcoholism, were selected and categorized in a rank order. These can be regarded as ordinal scales, since in every case (a) each category differs from the others, and (b) each is related to the others. In each case there can be said to be an underlying continuum and in all cases a higher number indicates, in our opinion, a less ‘desirable’ state.
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