Group methodology in production management: A solution based on a hierarchical classification method
Israël César Lerman · Applied Stochastic Models and Data Analysis · 1986
Abstract We consider the problem submitted by Garcia and Proth and we propose for it a solution obtained by simply applying our very general method of hierarchical classification based on the likelihood of the links, in the case of an incidence table of data. This application is done on each of the two sides of the incidence data table. In our approach, the common number p of classes has not to be fixed arbitrarily, but is an observed possible result—provided by the notions of ‘significant’ levels and nodes of the classification tree—for the ‘natural’ association between two partitions. We compare our solution with the previous one.