Written in an accessible style, this book facilitates a deep understanding of the Rasch model.
Authors Bond and Fox review the crucial properties of the Rasch model and demonstrate its …

Rank aggregation has recently been proposed as a useful abstraction that has several
applications, including meta-search, synthesizing rank functions from multiple indices …

In contemporary North America, figure skating ranks among the most'feminine'of sports and
few boys take it up for fear of being labelled effeminate or gay. Yet figure skating was once …

This paper exploits nationalistic biases in Olympic winter sports judging to study the problem
of designing a decision‐making process that uses the input of potentially biased agents …

Transparency is usually thought to reduce favoritism and corruption by facilitating monitoring
by outsiders, but there is concern it can have the perverse effect of facilitating collusion by …

A “scoring rule” is an assignment of a value to every tuple (of varying sizes). This paper is
concerned with the issue of how to modify a scoring rule to apply to the case where weights …

The formal equivalence between social choice and statistical estimation means that criteria
used to evaluate estimators can be interpreted as features of voting rules. The robustness of …

We use recently developed nonparametric tests for orthogonality to test the null hypothesis
of an absence of national bias in the judging of Olympic figure‐skating events. The results …

The number of situations that require individual judgments and evaluations, and that may be
object of different sources of conscious and unconscious biases is endless. This paper …

Suppose an organization has a committee with multiple seats, and the committee members
are to be elected by a group of voters. For the organization, the possible alternatives are the …