Sensitivity and stability of ranking vectors

SIAM Journal on Scientific Computing

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1077-1102

  Chartier, Timothy P ^a   Kreutzer, Erich ^a   Langville, Amy N ^b   Pedings, Kathryn E ^b  

^a DAVIDSON COLLEGE   (United States)

^b Department of Teacher Education and Department of Sociology and Anthropology   (United States)

Author keywords

Colley method; Markov method; Massey method; PageRank; Ranking vector; Rating vector; Sensitivity; Stability

Indexed keywords

PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; REVERSE ENGINEERING;

COLLEY METHOD; MARKOV METHOD; MASSEY METHOD; PAGE RANKS; PERTURBATION ANALYSIS; RANKING METHODS; RANKING VECTOR; RATING VECTOR; SENSITIVITY; SIMPLE++;

VECTORS;

EID: 79960398883     PISSN: 10648275     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1137/090772745     Document Type: Article

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