An inference and integration approach for the consolidation of ranked lists

Communications in Statistics: Simulation and Computation

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1152-1166

  Schimek, Michael G ^a   Myšičkovǎ, Alena ^b   Budinskǎ, Eva ^c,d  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

^b MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MOLECULAR GENETICS   (Germany)

^c SWISS INSTITUTE OF BIOINFORMATICS   (Switzerland)

^d MASARYK UNIVERSITY   (Czech Republic)

Author keywords

Cross entropy Monte Carlo; Kendall's ; Moderate deviation; Partial list; Random degeneration; Rank aggregation; Spearman's footrule; Top k ranked list

Indexed keywords

MODERATE DEVIATION; MONTE CARLO; PARTIAL LIST; RANDOM DEGENERATION; RANK AGGREGATION; SPEARMAN'S FOOTRULE; TOP-K RANKED LIST;

CIRCUIT SIMULATION; SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; STATISTICS;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 84861216665     PISSN: 03610918     EISSN: 15324141     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/03610918.2012.625843     Document Type: Conference Paper

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