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Hopefully cleaned up this page significantly. There may be some useful info in the German article. Removed the link to the French article which was about Rank (mathematics). Matthewmayer 02:03, 12 December 2005 (UTC)

I've expanded the summary a bit, and added a whole section on ranking strategies. I'm painfully aware this lacks any references, and would welcome anyone's efforts to rectify that. I'll try and come back to it myself when I have time to hunt down the necessary sources. Mooncow 00:46, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rank tests in statistics

Article needs a section on rank tests in statistics. Example: Wilcoxon signed-rank test. DFH 08:19, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

Started. DFH 08:23, 23 January 2007 (UTC)

The quality of Excel (or the lack thereof) should be discussed under the topic "Excel". Rather than giving a reference to the macro by Pottel, midranks can be computed within Excel by computing u-scores as RANK(A1,A$1:A$3,1)-RANK(A1,A$1:A$3,0) and then transforming them into ranks by adding COUNT(A$1:A$3)+1 and dividing by 2.

Since I don't want to subject myself to the same criticism, I would like to invite somebody else to have a look at mu-scores (u-scores for multivariate data), e.g., in (Wittkowski 2004, Statistics in Medicine), with a recent application to Tour de France data in (Cherchye Vermeulen, 2006, Journal of Sports Economics) —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Kmwittko (talk • contribs) 18:19:02, August 19, 2007 (UTC).

[edit] Need Cites?

Should there be a citation for the various types of rankings that are listed in this article? Is the term 'Dense Rank' actually defined somewhere authoritatively? 136.177.4.15 (talk) 18:58, 1 April 2008 (UTC)eeverman