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Notes on a Problem of Multiple Classification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Frederic M. Lord
Frederic M. Lord*
Affiliation:
Educational Testing Service
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Abstract

A solution is developed in implicit form for the problem of assigning N men to n jobs, the proportion of men to be assigned to each job being specified in advance.

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Psychometrika , Volume 17 , Issue 3 , September 1952 , pp. 297 - 304
Copyright
Copyright © 1952 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

*

The author wishes to thank Dr. Hubert Brogden and Dr. Paul Horst for their helpful discussion and criticism.

†

Dr. Paul S. Dwyer has recently developed important practical methods of solution, as yet unpublished.

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