Basic Principles for Construction and Application of Discriminators

George W. Brown

ResearchPosted on rand.org 1950Published in: Journal of Clinical Psychology, v. 6, no. 1, Jan. 1950, p. 58-61

This paper deals with the classification of an individual into one of two or more categories, on the basis of observations made on the individual together with a knowledge of the statistical distributions of the observed quantities for individuals within each of the possible categories.

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  • Copyright: John Wiley and Sons
  • Availability: Non-RAND
  • Year: 1950
  • Pages: 4
  • Document Number: EP-195001-01

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