Theory and Practice for the Use of Cut Scores for Personnel Decisions

Abstract

This paper provides necessary and sufficient conditions for the existence of a cut-score for arbitrary utility functions. Classical theories of monitone likelihood ratios and stochastically increasing distribution are extended to provide the necessary theory of monitone posterior ratios, which provides a sufficiency condition. Necessity is studied in individual cases. In general only modest sample sizes and avoidance of situations with extreme cut-scores is necessary.

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 01, 1979
Accession Number
ADA075472

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  • David T. Chuang
  • James J. Chen
  • Melvin R. Novick

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  • University of Iowa

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