On 12 Feb 2001 11:27:26 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (EAKIN MARK E) wrote: > I have just given a class their first exam and would like to put a class > of 60 into groups of size three. I would like the groups to have basically > the same average score on the first exam. Would anyone know of an > algorithm for doing this? I don't imagine that I would be totally happy with a mechanical algorithm. How much to I care about the Standard Deviation? For starters, I guess I would generate 20 teams of 3 by random, and then evaluate on a criterion or two. If I generated 1000 or 10,000 sets like this, then I could sort them into order. And see if I like the results. Maybe it would be the set with the minimum F-test for the between-groups ANOVA. -- Rich Ulrich, [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pitt.edu/~wpilib/index.html ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list and remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES are available at http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ =================================================================
