PSYC39H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Receiver Operating Characteristic, Pearson Product-Moment Correlation Coefficient, Complete Review
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This entry does not provide a complete review of the multifaceted field of. Behavior involves making decisions or choices from a number of options. Typically, there is little uncertainty regarding consequences to behavioral choices. Where outcomes are uncertain and different alternatives carry less favourable consequences, decisions carry implicit judgments about the palatability of different outcomes. Originating in systems engineering, formal risk assessment (ra) indicates that some systematic process that deals with uncertainties is being used to formulate policy options and assess their various distributional impacts and ramifications (haimes, The four basic ra questions are: what might go wrong; what is the likelihood that it will go wrong; what are the consequences of it going wrong; and finally, Nussbaum/violence risk assessment what can be done about it (haimes, 2004). The ultimate goal is to make an optimal set of decisions that will minimize cumulative risk. Translation of risk assessment principles to violence risk.
