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A Method to Rank Multiple Trait Performance of Biological Entities
Author(s) -
Arunachalam V.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
biometrical journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.108
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1521-4036
pISSN - 0323-3847
DOI - 10.1002/bimj.4710350810
Subject(s) - trait , ranking (information retrieval) , multivariate statistics , statistics , rank (graph theory) , mathematics , computer science , econometrics , artificial intelligence , combinatorics , programming language
Performance of biological entities are defined, in general by k inter‐dependent traits whose error variances are heterogeneous. A method of arriving at “Performance Scores” for the entities along with a multivariate test of significance of k ‐trait differences is described. They are used to compute, for each entity, a “Performance Index” on which a ranking of the relative performance is obtained. The improvement in the present method over an earlier one is illustrated with a numerical example.