The diagnostic process as a statistical-causal analysis

The model of statistical-causal analysis developed by Stegmüller (1973) with reference to Salmon (1970, 1971) is applied to the diagnostic process and suggested as a replacement for the model of inductive-statistical systematization in the context of normative diagnostics (Westmeyer, 1972). For a generalization of the model with respect to discrete random variables, an algorithmic construction of the diagnostic process is given generally and then elucidated by a simple example. It becomes apparent that this model avoids important problems which confront normative diagnostics relying on the model of inductive-statistical systematization.