A system of measures was designed to
evaluate the effect of a change in management of an alcoholic treatment center. The
measures also were used to indicate the
causes for the changes in performance.
Because the treatment center's physical
plant is to be replaced in the near future,
regression techniques, using one of the
evaluation measures, were used to predict
the size of the replacement facility and
when it should become operational. The
evaluation was made approximately a
year after the management change occurred. Because only a limited amount of
data was available, it was necessary to use
nonparametric statistical techniques.
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