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Ranking and Selection from Pairwise Comparisons: Empirical Bayes Methods for Citation Analysis

Jiaying Gu, Roger Koenker

arXiv 21 Dec 2021 · Econometrics · publishedAEA Papers and Proceedings (2022) · 5 citations (OpenAlex)

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Abstract

We study the Stigler model of citation flows among journals adapting the pairwise comparison model of Bradley and Terry to do ranking and selection of journal influence based on nonparametric empirical Bayes procedures. Comparisons with several other rankings are made.

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1Isaiah Andrews, Toru Kitagawa \ Adam McCloskey (2021) Inference on winners0.40511100%
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6Xinzhou Guo \ Xuming He (2020) Inference on selected subgroups in clinical trials0.40511100%
7Jiaying Gu \ Roger Koenker (2022) Invidious Comparisons: Ranking and Selection as Compound Decisions0.40511100%
8Bryan Graham (2017) An econometric model of network formation with degree heterogeneity0.40511100%
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