Accession Number:

ADA026254

Title:

Capturing and Clustering Judges' Policies,

Descriptive Note:

Corporate Author:

CALIFORNIA UNIV BERKELEY OPERATIONS RESEARCH CENTER

Personal Author(s):

• Kafry,Ditsa
• Adler,Ilan

Report Date:

1976-03-01

Pagination or Media Count:

21.0

Abstract:

Judgment Analysis JAN has been used as a method for grouping judges according to the homogeneity of their regression equations. It is demonstrated that a contrary to the accepted claim, JAN may fail to generate an optimal grouping, and b this problem is, in fact, a special case of the well-known clustering problem for which a variety of cluster-analysis techniques are available.

Descriptors:

• *REGRESSION ANALYSIS
• MATHEMATICAL MODELS
• DECISION MAKING
• MATRICES(MATHEMATICS)

Subject Categories:

• Psychology
• Statistics and Probability

Distribution Statement:

APPROVED FOR PUBLIC RELEASE