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Peer reviewedSadler, D. Royce – Evaluation Review, 1982
Not all data for a program evaluation may be equally valuable, and costs of collection may vary when using several methods to obtain data from several sources. An approach to maximize information yield for a fixed, limited budget using a mathematical technique known as linear programming is described and generalized. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Cost Effectiveness, Data Collection, Evaluation Utilization, Foreign Countries
