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Ranking in incomplete blocks. The use of the technique and the interpretation of the results
Author(s) -
Levitt David J.
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
journal of the science of food and agriculture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.782
H-Index - 142
eISSN - 1097-0010
pISSN - 0022-5142
DOI - 10.1002/jsfa.2740240614
Subject(s) - ranking (information retrieval) , interpretation (philosophy) , computer science , simple (philosophy) , data mining , artificial intelligence , information retrieval , machine learning , statistics , natural language processing , mathematics , epistemology , philosophy , programming language
It is often more convenient or expedient to obtain data in the form of rankings than in the form of scores or measurements. Analysis of such data has, however, been difficult to perform and to interpret except for the most simple experiments. The model described by Bradley and Terry 1 provides a very useful analysis in the case of ranking by paired comparisons. A method of analysis similar to the Bradley‐Terry model, but dealing with ranking in incomplete blocks or complete blocks of any size, has been developed. The results of this analysis are readily interpretable and should enable more use to be made of ranking procedures.