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Youngstrom, Eric A.; Youngstrom, Jennifer Kogos – Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 2005
This column demonstrates how behavior rating scales or checklists are an inexpensive and potentially useful source of information. It shows how to make use of likelihood ratios to assess the likelihood of PBD in an individual case. Likelihood ratios are valuable because they may enable a clinician to take a legitimate shortcut and use an easier to…
Descriptors: Child Behavior, Check Lists, Pediatrics, Diagnostic Tests