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On the Application of Bayesian Credibility Theory to Achieve More Accurate Movie Rankings

Das, Palash Ranjan - 2016

Credibility theory is a branch of actuarial science devoted to quantify how unique a particular outcome will be when … Credibility Theory in rating and ranking movies by a premier online movie database which is based on user's votes. Although the … Bayesian credibility theory was developed originally as a method to calculate the risk premium by combining the individual risk …

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Estimation in a Duration Model for Evaluating Educational Programs

Brannas, Kurt - 2021

The paper proposes two estimation approaches for duration models that are subject to right censored observations and selection effects. Main focus is on accelerated duration models and the estimators that are of the limited information type, i.e. they are not based on a fully specified selection...

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On the Relative Efficacies of Ranking and Absolute Performance Evaluation Systems

Balakrishnan, Ramji - 2016

levels and tasks, we provide a comparative analysis of two performance evaluation systems widely used in practice ― an … absolute performance evaluation system (APE) and a tournament or a ranking system (RE). An important consideration in such an … that are imperfect. Ranking systems are inherently superior to absolute performance evaluation absent performance …

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The precedence function : a numerical evaluation method for multicriteria ranking problems

Villar, Antonio - In: Economic theory bulletin 11 (2023) 2, pp. 211-219

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Ranking by rating

Sprumont, Yves - 2016

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Ranking by rating

Sprumont, Yves - In: Theoretical economics : TE ; an open access journal in … 13 (2018) 1, pp. 1-18

Ranking by rating consists in evaluating the performances of items using exoge- nous rating functions and ranking these items according to their performance rat- ings. Any such method is separable: the ordering of two items does not depend on the performances of the remaining items. When...

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Ratings or pairwise comparisons? : an experimental study on scale usability

Karpinska-Krakowiak, Malgorzata - In: Economic and environmental studies : a journal for … 18 (2018) 2, pp. 653-664

A series of experiments was run in order to evaluate the usability of two different measurement approaches: ratings and ranks (pairwise comparisons). Respondents were asked to assess perceived characteristics (i.e. height and length) of different physical objects by using either a rating or a...

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Ratings vs. Rankings – A Comparison of Predictability

Meinhardt, Christian - 2011

This study questions whether the Feri Trust Rating, the Euro Fondsnote and the Finanztest-Bewertung are able to predict … future performance compared to those with top rating. The rankings Feri Trust Rating and Finanztest-Bewertung reach this … Feri Trust or Finanztest-Bewertung differ not from second and third best funds …

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Evaluating Publications Across Business Disciplines : Inferring Interdisciplinary 'Exchange Rates' from Intradisciplinary Author Rankings

Korkeamaki, Timo P. - 2017

We propose a novel approach to comparing publications across business disciplines. Specifically, we aim to provide an objective method for evaluating the interdisciplinary value of publications based on intradisciplinary author rankings. Using publication data from the leading journals in...

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Evaluation and Ranking of Market Forecasters

Bailey, David H. - 2017

We develop a novel ranking methodology to rank the market forecaster. In particular, we distinguish forecasts by their specificity, rather than considering all predictions and forecasts equally important, and we also analyze the impact of the number of forecasts made by a particular forecaster....

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