1st Edition

Analyzing and Modeling Rank Data

By John I Marden Copyright 1995
344 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

320 Pages
by Chapman & Hall

This book is the first single source volume to fully address this prevalent practice in both its analytical and modeling aspects. The information discussed presents the use of data consisting of rankings in such diverse fields as psychology, animal science, educational testing, sociology, economics, and biology. This book systematically presents the basic models and methods for analyzing data in... Read more
Introduction
Looking at data
Formal tests of uniformity: summary statistics and distances
Comparing several samples
Overview of models
Some axiomatics
Likelihood methods and exponential families
Distance-based models
Appendix

Biography

John I Marden University of Illinois, Champaign, USA