rank ordering

collocation in English

meaningsofrankandorder

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rank
noun
uk
/ræŋk/us
/ræŋk/
a position in an organization, such as the army, showing the importance of the person ...
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order
noun
uk
/ˈɔː.dər/us
/ˈɔːr.dɚ/
a request to make, supply, or deliver food ...
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(Definition ofrankandorderfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Arankorderingis therefore very much at the heart of football assignments - even if it is a one-sidedrankordering.
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On the other hand, if voters vote strategically, rather than according to a party scheme, it is quite plausible that therankorderingwill change.
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The weak correlation between surgeon- and patient-rated urgency indicates an inconsistency in therankorderingof patients by surgeons and patients.
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We then cumulate the number of times a given therapy is judged superior to its peers in pairwise contests, and the cumulative score yields therankordering.
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Therankorderingamong women was slightly different.
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The polls rarely indicate a clearrankorderingin any kind of statistically significant way, especially in large districts.
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If therankorderingdid not change, we would expect the correlation between the poll ranks and electoral ranks to be one.
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We did so byrankorderingeach noun and verb in the combined corpus of noun and verb types by their token frequency.
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Number of greater than symbols indicate relative sizes of differences in therankordering(best to worst) of performance predictions within a given model.
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Interpersonal comparison of utilities is required if the welfare function is to capture not just individualrankorderingof alternatives but also individual strength of preferences.
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