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Appendix D: Methodology Employed in the Study
Pages 126-127

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... Procedures employed were based on principles of hierarchical decomposition and statistical factor analysis, but the procedures were informally applied. The individual questions were thereby reorganized into broad categories, independently of the seven modal groups within which these questions were proposed.
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... The committee considered how a broad infrastructure program might be structured to address the niche areas, to yield highest possible overall benefits for given levels of research investment. Possible overlaps, conflicts, or mutually beneficial interactions among researchers working on different infrastructure modes on similar research topics were topics considered in this stage of the study.
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