Q2 Z2,(Q2) Z2(Q2) - Institute for Water Resources - U.S. Army

origins, and if the classification was always transitive, one could be
satisfied by a probability greater than .333 to attribute a shipment
point to a mode of transportation. Since the possibility of
intransitivity is not excluded, one might set a level slightly higher
before classifying an origin in a mode category.
Both methods reach exactly the same classificatin of origins.
If it is then wished to estimate the volume of shipments by each mode,
one could for instance compute the sum of the tonnages shipped by all
the origins in each class. Alternatively, one might regroup the origins
per county and allocate each county production to the three modes in
proportion to the number of shippers in each class.
Finally, one could investigate the influence of variation in the
market prices, the rates, the interest rate, and the time on the choices
of mode.
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