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Research supported by National Science Foundation under Grant No. NSF-GP 11021 at University of Minnesota while the author was visiting there during 1969–70.
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Tong, Y.L. On the consistency of single-stage ranking procedures. Ann Inst Stat Math 24, 271–284 (1972). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02479757
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