Robust Rankings of Multidimensional Performances: An Application to Tour de France Racing Cyclists

Journal of Sports Economics

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 359-373

  Cherchye, Laurens ^a   Vermeulen, Frederic ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^b TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

compensating principle; multidimensional performance aggregation; ordinal approach; robust ranking; Tour de France

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990321352     PISSN: 15270025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1527002505275092     Document Type: Article

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