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The article presents information about skills of clinicians in analysis of projective tests. With the recent sudden increase in the number of psychologists engaged in clinical practice, there has arisen an interest in the selection of persons to be trained for this work and to that end an interest in the development of reliable measures of diagnostic skill. A group of the University of Michigan was interested in the possibility of demonstrating the relative and cumulative effectiveness of all available techniques as predictive of future professional success in this highly individualized specialty. In addition to paper and pencil tests of intelligence, achievement, personality, attitudes and temperament, and interviews, this group used individual and pooled ratings based on situational and real life procedures designed to reveal aptitude for effective interpersonal relationships.

In many scientific investigations, it is desired to bring together, or link, two or more documents which represent the same individual, even though these documents do not contain a unique identifier and were derived from different sources. In medical and public health research and elsewhere, this problem is known as the document linkage problem. This paper considers some aspects of classifying pairs of documents into one of two populations when their items are identifying information, where each item of information can take on three distinct values correct, incorrect or missing. Section I identifies three document linkage problems. Sections 2 and 3 deal with the mathematical formulation of the multivariate document linkage problem. Section 4 gives the classification procedure and Section 5 deals with the application of the theory to a problem in the field of public health. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article presents information on the "Sixth International Conference on Oral Biology" to be held at Toronto, Ontario, from June 3-5, 1974. The theme of the conference will be "Pharmacology and Therapeutics." Interested scientists are invited to submit specific titles and abstracts of papers to be considered for presentation at the conference. Primary consideration will be given to research utilizing a multidiscipline approach and having a wide appeal to scientists in oral biology. Titles should clearly define the topic; a single page abstract must include a summary of materials, research methodology, results and conclusions.