Modelling the effect of subject-specific covariates in paired comparison studies with an application to university rankings

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series C: Applied Statistics

Volumn 47, Issue 4, 1998, Pages 511-525

  Dittrich, R ^a   Hatzinger, R ^b   Katzenbeisser, W ^b  

^a VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS   (Austria)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Bradley Terry model; Log linear model; Object specific covariate; Paired comparisons; Subject specific covariate; University rankings

Indexed keywords

EID: 0040633376     PISSN: 00359254     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9876.00125     Document Type: Article

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