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Notes on a Problem of Multiple Classification

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 January 2025

Frederic M. Lord*
Affiliation:
Educational Testing Service

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.

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 Paul S. Dwyer has recently developed important practical methods of solution, as yet unpublished.

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