Uncertainties and Ambiguities in Percentiles and how to Avoid Them
Other Statistics
2012-05-17 v1 Digital Libraries
Physics and Society
Abstract
The recently proposed fractional scoring scheme is used to attribute publications to percentile rank classes. It is shown that in this way uncertainties and ambiguities in the evaluation of percentile ranks do not occur. Using the fractional scoring the total score of all papers exactly reproduces the theoretical value.
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@article{arxiv.1205.3588,
title = {Uncertainties and Ambiguities in Percentiles and how to Avoid Them},
author = {Michael Schreiber},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.3588},
year = {2012}
}
Comments
6 pages, 2 figures, submitted to Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology