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The Detailed Method of Optimal Regions

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Paul S. Dwyer
Paul S. Dwyer*
Affiliation:
University of Michigan
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Abstract

The detailed method of optimal regions is an extended form of the method of optimal regions which has been found effective in solving the personnel classification problem when the number of job categories is small. The automatic determination of the successive values of the vi, made possible by the more exact techniques of the detailed method, provide easier solutions for the more complex problems and provide solutions, which, for the most part, can be mechanized. In a sense the detailed method of optimal regions is more than a detailed form of the method of optimal regions. It is essentially a method of transformations by which the original matrix is reduced to a matrix from which the solution is easily obtained.

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Original Paper
Information
Psychometrika , Volume 22 , Issue 1 , March 1957 , pp. 43 - 52
Copyright
Copyright © 1957 The Psychometric Society

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Footnotes

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Much of the basic research covered in this paper was carried out while the author was working on the problem of personnel classification in his capacity as Consultant, Personnel Research Branch, Department of the Army. The author wishes to express his appreciation to the Department of the Army for permission to use these materials in this paper. The opinions expressed are those of the author and are not to be construed as official or as those of the Department of the Army.

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