Statistical Methods for Ranking Data

• Main Authors: Alvo, Mayer (Author), Yu, Philip L.H (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2014.
• Series: Frontiers in Probability and the Statistical Sciences
• Subjects: Statistics.; Data mining.; Statistical Theory and Methods.; Statistics, general.; Statistics and Computing/Statistics Programs.; Data Mining and Knowledge Discovery.

This book introduces advanced undergraduate, graduate students and practitioners to statistical methods for ranking data. An important aspect of nonparametric statistics is oriented towards the use of ranking data. Rank correlation is defined through the notion of distance functions and the notion o...