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Ranking is used, usually in smaller distributions, where the primary need is for an order of size, or of importance, or of preference. Class position in French or Geography, order of finishing in a race, ranking of characteristics in order in a newspaper competition — all these are cases where ranking is involved.
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© 1978 Marjorie H. Hall
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Hall, A.H. (1978). Rank Correlation. In: An Introduction to Statistics. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-03146-7_10
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