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Professor E. M. L. BEALE in the Chair] SUMMARY The methodology and fields of application of identification keys and diagnostic tables are reviewed, consideration being given to both mathematical theory and practical requirements. Probabilistic and non-probabilistic techniques are covered. The paper attempts a synthesis of a large and widely dispersed literature that is not properly integrated, in that workers in one field of application have often been unaware of relevant theory developed in other fields.
Payne et al. (Tue,) studied this question.