Identification Keys and Diagnostic Tables: A Review

DOI10.2307/2982129zbMath0466.62101OpenAlexW129903560MaRDI QIDQ3918974

D. A. Preece, Roger W. Payne

Publication date: 1980

Published in: Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (General) (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2982129

zbMATH Keywords

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Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to biology and medical sciences; meta analysis (62P10) Computing methodologies and applications (68U99) Statistical aspects of information-theoretic topics (62B10) Theory of questionnaires (94A50)

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