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Have Multivariate Statistics Contributed to Classification?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

E. S. Paykel
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In the last twenty years many workers have applied multivariate statistical techniques to problems of classification in psychiatry. To what extent have the techniques resolved the problems? This personal view will attempt to appraise the current situation.

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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 139 , Issue 4 , October 1981 , pp. 357 - 362
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1981 

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