A ranking method based on minimizing the number of in-sample errors

American Statistician

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2005, Pages 207-216

  Frey, Jesse ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bayesian methods; Gibbs sampler; Importance sampling; Paired comparisons; Rankings; Rao Blackwellization

Indexed keywords

EID: 23844455277     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313005X54883     Document Type: Article

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