Systemic testing on Bradley-Terry model against nonlinear ranking hierarchy.

We take a system point of view toward constructing any power or ranking hierarchy onto a society of human or animal players. The most common hierarchy is the linear ranking, which is habitually used in nearly all real-world problems. A stronger version of linear ranking via increasing and unvarying...

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Main Authors: Aaron Shev, Kevin Fujii, Fushing Hsieh, Brenda McCowan
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4274013?pdf=render