Research Reports from the Department of Operations

Document Type

Report

Publication Date

7-1-1969

Abstract

This report is concerned with selection of factors for the purpose of evaluating Research and Development projects. The approach is statistical. Projects are selected from different Divisions of the Army Materiel Command and ranked according to each of a number of proposed factors. The relative importance of the projects selected from the same Division are known a priori. Correlation coefficients between the a priori and each observed rank-order series are obtained. It is supposed that between two factors, the one having a larger number of significant correlation coefficients is more relevant than the other as a basis for project selection.

Keywords

Operations research, Research and development projects, Correlation (Statistics), Military research, United States. Army Materiel Command

Publication Title

Technical Memorandums from the Department of Operations, School of Management, Case Western Reserve University

Issue

Technical memorandum no. 154

Rights

This work is in the public domain and may be freely downloaded for personal or academic use

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