Analysis of incomplete blocks for rankings

M. Alvo and P. Cabilio

Statistics & Probability Letters, 1996, vol. 29, issue 2, 177-184

Abstract: Each of b judges independently rank kh out of t objects, h = 1, 2, ... , b. This basic design is replicated n times, resulting in nb independent blocks. The methods introduced in Alvo and Cabilio (1991) to test for concordance among the judges in a BIBD are extended to this situation and applied to a statistic based on Kendall's tau. This statistic is then analyzed for a situation not considered in Alvo and Cabilio (1991), and it is shown to maintain its superior efficiency over the Durbin test.

Keywords: Incomplete; blocks; Balanced; Doubly; balanced; Ranking; Spearman; correlation; Kendall; correlation; Asymptotic; distributions; Bahadur; efficiency (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 1996
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