there are actually several variations on rankings from <help> on spss "You can select multiple ranking methods. A separate ranking variable is created for each method. Ranking methods include simple ranks, Savage scores, fractional ranks, and percentiles. You can also create rankings based on proportion estimates and normal scores.
Proportion Estimation Formula. For proportion estimates and normal scores, you can select the proportion estimation formula: Blom, Tukey, Rankit, or Van der Waerden." you can also treat ties by giving all cases with the same value the low, high, mean, or sequential ranks. The algorithms on these are spelled out on the spss page. I beleve there is a Polish version of SPSS. The SPSS site was up when I just looked. http://www.spss.com/tech/stat/algorithms/7.5/rank.pdf gives all the formulae for RANK. It would be very difficult to put them all in ascii text format. Hope this helps. Art [EMAIL PROTECTED] Social Research Consultants University Park, MD USA Ludwik G�rski wrote: >>go to www.spss.com >>and for "rank" it will have the specifications and algorithms for > > the > >>rank procedure. >> >>Hope this helps. > > > Didn't help :( > The site is unavailable, and in google I found out it's a software > company. I'll try later to access this site, but if anyone knows > anything about the Rank, please help me! > Ludwik > > . . ================================================================= Instructions for joining and leaving this list, remarks about the problem of INAPPROPRIATE MESSAGES, and archives are available at: . http://jse.stat.ncsu.edu/ . =================================================================
