“…The potential of such a molecular focus in providing empirically weighted guidelines for clinicians regarding "what to look for" or "what to assign priority to" for particular clinical tasks was actualized by Gunderson and Kapfer (1 966) through the use of regression analysis techniques. This trend toward more sophisticated use of statistical, mathmatical, and computerbased models for investigating clinical inference unquestionably has been on the increase (Beach, 1967; Gaier & Lee, 1 9 5 3 ; Goldberg, 1970;Hammond, Hursch, & Todd, 1964;Hoffman, 1960;Hoffman, Slovic, & Rorer, 1968;Mirabile, Houck, & Glueck, 1971;Sarbin, Taft, & Bailey, 1960;Shipley, Powell, & Harley, 1970;Sines, 1966;Snapper & Peterson, 1971;Stone, 1970;Stone & Linscheid, 1971;Stroebel & Glueck, 1970;Warr & Smith, 1970;and, Wiggins & Hoffman, 1968).…”