| 释义 |
rank order, n. Statistics.
Also rank-order.
[f. rank n.1 + order n.]
An arrangement of the members of a set in order, with consecutive integers assigned to them. Also attrib.
1920Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. XXXI. 32 We are left..with the rank-orders of our psychological quantities, given by reference to a fixed but arbitrary extra-psychological scale. 1959Schuell & Jenkins in Saporta & Bastian Psycholinguistics (1961) 441/1 Table 3 presents the rank-order correlation coefficients between the order of difficulty of the tests for the entire group, and for each of the subgroups. Ibid., Table 4 presents the tests on which rank-orders of the three subgroups differed by three or more ranks. 1973Jrnl. Genetic Psychol. CXXIII. 79 Rank-order correlations were obtained by correlating the rank of each student on the original test with his rank on the retest. 1975Z. Govindarajulu Sequential Statistical Procedures iii. 259 One can derive an explicit expression for the probability of a rank order.
Hence rank-order v. trans., to arrange in such a way.
1972Jrnl. Social Psychol. LXXXVIII. 169 The concepts are rank-ordered in terms of the pre-GSRI attitude change correlations. |