ha. yeah, I'd prolly just randomize the table as is for S+Gs to see if just
randomly distributes even enough for the suits. Or, seeing as how you are
on a edu there, I suggest taking a jaunt over to the Prob and stats dept, or
Math dept if no separate prob+stats, and have some grad student play
The nice thing is you can test the distribution when you are done to
determine, statistically, if everything is distributed evenly. So a test in
this case is really important. I would develop your testing algorithm (as
suggested earlier first) and then work on the actual distribution
algorithm.
Damn good question. Here's what I would do...
For each classification, find out how many groups there are and how
many belong to each group. For gender, you have 2 groups and they are
probably split 50/50. So every addition to each bucket of students
would be male, then female, etc.
Dean's method is one possibility. This is actually a very interesting
question and I'm nojt sure how I'd solve it. I thought about it a bit
during my drive home, and here's the approach I would take... This is
alot easier if there are only two choices for each statistic
(male|female -
Or, you normalize with eigenvectors. Just determine the McClaurean
equivalent, factor the Jacobian and viola!
Actually, in a take on Dean's suggestion you could try a weighting
function. Simply assign a numeric value for each classification,
bucketize the results by sum of the numeric values for
] On Behalf Of Cameron
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Sent: Friday, July 25, 2008 18:44
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Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] sorting question
Dean's method is one possibility. This is actually a very interesting
question and I'm nojt sure how I'd solve it. I thought about it a bit
during my drive home
