The university rankings game: Modeling the competition among universities for ranking

American Statistician

Volumn 62, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 232-237

  Grewal, Rajdeep ^a   Dearden, James A ^b   Lilien, Gary L ^a  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LEHIGH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adjacent category logit model; University ranking; USNews

Indexed keywords

EID: 49649125151     PISSN: 00031305     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/000313008X332124     Document Type: Article

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