Ranking is the task (for respondents) or the result of ordering the given stimuli or performers from "highest" to "lowest" (or vice versa) in some respect. It is usually contrasted with rating of stimuli. (For ranking as a way of data transformation - use tag [ranks]).
Questions tagged [ranking]
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What is the best way of combining multiple rankings into one?
Suppose I have $N$ different items to be ranked, and $M$ different people who provide a ranking of the items according to their personal preference. What is the best way of combining all rankings into one?
The simplest approach would be to compute…
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Scoring items which are not easily compared
First of all, I apologize since this question has probably been asked many times and is easily answered. However, as a statistics amateur I simply couldn't figure out what keywords are relevant to my question.
Suppose you have 100 merchants and 100…
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Analyzing repeated rank data.
I have a data set of N people, T items. Let's say N=100, and T=10.
Each person goes through the following exercise.
She is shown 2 random items from the set of T=10, and ranks them as rank 1 and 2.
She is next shown 2 more random items from the…
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Comparing the difference between two ranks
I have a list of teams in a local soccer league, ranked from 1 to 10, where the top (1st) ranked team has the most wins (and hence "points").
I'm trying to create a "power" list, so that if the 10th ranked team wins against the 1st ranked team, the…
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Ranking on multiple variables
I have a list of items (in my case firms) and four characteristics, lets call them A,B,C, and D.
My goal is to rank the firms in my sample based on these characteristics and to find the the firms with the highest (lowest) characteristics A,B,C and…
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Comparing Elo Ranking system with another ranking system
I'm a guy who is interested in computer science and algorithms. I've spent a bit of time recently developing my own ranking system based on PageRank.
I'd like to compare it to the Elo system, in particular, the chess Elo ratings of the top 50 chess…
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Merge Multiple Rankings (different criteria and observations) into one
So I have 3 rankings on different sets of companies (different industries) and each of them was elaborated based on the key performance indicators of that particular industry.
I ran a PCA to find the key performance indicators and then a CCA…
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Ranking companies
Assume there are a total of 1000000 contracts.
Assume there are 120 bad contracts in total.
Assume that company 1 issues 500000/1000000 contracts and 70 are deemed bad.
Assume that company 2 issues 100000/1000000 contracts and 50 are deemed…
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Algorithm for rating books: Relative perception
So I am developing this application for rating books (think like IMDB for books) using relational database.
Problem statement :
Let's say book "A" deserves 8.5 in absolute sense. In case if A is the best book I have ever seen, I'll most probably…
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Aggregate ranking from multiple ranked lists
I have multiples lists which are ordered. How do I generate a final list with all elements in all lists ranked by their cumulative rank? I.e. the Final column here:
I can't obtain the data with the fruits as a column and other columns with the…
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What is the best way to combine individual rankings to provide an overall group ranking?
If I have 50 people randomly split into 5 groups of 10 people, I can rank the groups based on their combined weight. If I were to rank each person based on their individual weight, what would be the most accurate way to recreate the original group…
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terms used in Stochastic ordering
I have some rudimentary questions on how to call/name certain things in terms of Stochastic ordering. I am using simple examples here but would like to know the language used in general cases.
suppose we have uniform distributions on [x,2], where…
Adam
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Ranking Metric for 3 elements [Not in the information retrieval sense]
I'm working on a problem which requires me to rank 3 products based on the preferences (i.e. how much a user likes them). Let's say products are A, B, and C
I have the ground truth: A > B > C i.e. ranking is [1, 2, 3]
I have a prediction algorithm…
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How to assign weighting to variables when ranking football players
I have a data set of a number of different variables that relate to the performances of footballers in matches. Examples include Accurate Passes/90 mins, Crosses/90 mins and Headers/90mins.
Rather than taking the actual value in each column, I have…
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How to select the next matchup to best reduce uncertainty in a ranking
So say I have 30 teams and I want to schedule their games with the objective getting the most information concerning who's better than who as quick as I can. How do I do this. Let's say we have a ranking system like elo. After every game we pick…
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