Fordham University

Measures of perceived social support from friends and from family: Three validation studies

Three studies are described in which measures of perceived social support from friends (PSS-Fr) and from family (PSS-Fa) were developed and validated. The PSS measures were inte...

Validating Internet research: A test of the psychometric equivalence of Internet and in-person samples

Does cost-sensitive learning beat sampling for classifying rare classes?

A highly-skewed class distribution usually causes the learned classifier to predict the majority class much more often than the minority class. This is a consequence of the fact...

Issues of validity in the diagnostic interview schedule

The Diagnostic Interview Schedule, the chief instrument in contemporary studies in psychiatric epidemiology, enhances the reliability of psychiatric diagnosis and enables lay in...

Consumers’ Perceptions of the Product—Use Situation

Mining with Rare Cases