On 18 Aug 2003 08:17:11 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Simon, Steve, PhD) > >> There must be a valid way of ranking one team over another or others? > >You might want to define "valid". And you tell us whether your primary >goal is ranking, prediction, or validation. These three very different >goals would dictate three very different approaches. It might be a >combination, of course. > >By the way, there is more than one valid way to rank a team just like >there is more than one valid way to assess whether a child has a fever. >And there is no "best" way to rank a team, just like there is no "best" >way to measure a fever.
If he's talking about sports competition it's very likely that any rankings aren't going to be transitive. . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
