Moderate-deviation-based inference for random degeneration in paired rank lists

Journal of the American Statistical Association

Volumn 107, Issue 498, 2012, Pages 661-672

  Hall, Peter ^a   Schimek, Michael G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^b MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF GRAZ   (Austria)

Author keywords

Aggregation of rankings; Bounds based on deviances; Nonparametric inference; Ordered ranking; Top k ranking

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862869161     PISSN: 01621459     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01621459.2012.682539     Document Type: Article

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