Quantifying the dynamics of ranked systems

This dissertation uses volatility and spacing to allow one to quantify the dynamics of a wide class of ranked systems. The systems we consider are any set of items, each with an associated score that may change over time. We define volatility as the standard deviation of the score of an item. We def...

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