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Back MatterSource: Operations Research, Vol. 23, No. 2 (Mar. - Apr., 1975), p. 387Published by: INFORMSStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/169540 .
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A Statistician's Apology (Presidential Address) .............................. Jerome Cornfield Applications Advocate Scoring for Unbiased Information .................................. Stanley L. Warner The Effects of Rotation Group Bias on Estimates from Panel Surveys ..... ........ Barbara A. Bailar Measuring the Power of Hierarchical Cluster Analysis ...... Frank B. Baker and Lawrence J. Hubert An Investigation of Imputation and Differential Quality of Data in the 1970 Census
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John B. Ofosu Allocation in Stratified Sampling Subsequent to Preliminary Test of Significance
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Pi-Erh Lin and Lawrence E. Stivers Minimum Variance Properties of Principal Component Regression ..... ......... Edward Greenberg The Power of the Likelihood Ratio Test of Location in Nonlinear Regression Models .... A. R. Gallant The Asymptotic Distribution of the Likelihood Ratio in Some Nonstandard Cases ...... Lionel Weiss A Simulation Study of One and Two Sample Kolmogorov-Smirnov Statistics with a Particular Weight
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Operations Research VOLUME 23, NUMBER 2, MARCH-APRIL 1975
CONTENTS The George E. Kimball M\ledal ................................. 189
An Interactive Procedure for the School Boundary Problem with Declining Enrollment................................... C. A. Holloway, D. A. Wehrung, M. P. Zeitlin and R. T. Nelson 191
When the Greedy Solution Solves a Class of Knapsack Problems.... M. J. Magazine, G. L. Nemhauser, and L. E. Trotter, Jr. 207
A Social Service Measurement Model.......................... Samuel J. Mantel, Jr., Allan L. Service, Arnold Reisman, et al. 218
A Branch-and-Bound Algorithm for Pagination. John Duncan and Lawrence W. Scott 240
A Priority Queue with Discounted Linear Costs.................. J. Michael Harrison 260
Dynamic Scheduling of a M\Iulticlass Queue: Discount Optimality. . . J. Michael Harrison 270
Decomposition Algorithms for Single-1\Iachine Sequencing with Precedence Relations and Deferral Costs ........ Jeffrey B. Sidney 283
A Lower Bounding Structure for Lot-Size Scheduling Problems.... P. R. Kleindorfer and E. F. P. Newson 299
Coordinating Aggregate and Detailed Scheduling in the One-Machine Job Shop: II-Computation and Structure.
L. Gelders and P. R. Kleindorfer 312
An i\I/i\I/m/n Queue for the Shortest Distance Priority 1\Iachine Interference Problem .................... Gary H. Reynolds 323
Strategic Weapons Exchange 1\Iodels........................... R. L. Arms, D. W. Grissmer, J. Bracken, L. A. Lyons,
F. A. Miercort, and N. M. Smith 342
TECHNICAL NOTES A Note on Integer 1\Iaximization of Unimodal Functions..........
Alan Washburn 358
Allocation of Effort Resources among Competing Activities........ Hanan Luss and Shiv K. Gupta 360
Comments on the Distribution of Inventory Position in a Con- tinuous-Review (s, S) Inventory System F. R. Richards 366
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