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On the Performance of Some Multinomial Classification Rules

William R. Dillon Department of Marketing, School of Business Administration, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, 01003, USA
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Matthew Goldstein Department of Statistics, Baruch College, The City University of New York, 17 Lexington Avenue, New York, NY, 10010, USA
Pages 305-313 | Received 01 Apr 1976, Published online: 05 Apr 2012

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