Obituary

摘要

Joe H. Ward Jr., an educator and longtime member of the ASA, died on June 23 at the age of 84 in San Antonio, Texas. As a research scientist for the U.S. government early in his career, Ward developed a number of innovative strategies using computer models in the Air Force Human Resources Laboratory, including a hierarchical clustering procedure that was used extensively in the Air Force's Comprehensive Occupational Data Analysis Program, a decision index used for sequential classification of personnel to jobs, and a policy development approach for combining multiple measures of outcomes into a single value.