title: A model for predicting clinically relevant group differences of open-response tests.
abstract: A comparison is made between testing for differences in group means and testing to assign an individual subject to one of two populations. A distinction is made between sample means of speech-discrimination tests which are statistically different and clinically useful speech-discrimination tests for properly classifying an individual. The probabilities of misclassification are discussed.
mesh_terms: D005188:False Negative Reactions; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D006801:Humans; D008962:Models, Theoretical; D013063:Speech Discrimination Tests / Q000592:standards*; D013223:Statistics as Topic