What is the name of the statistical method which generates an order from a set of orders: Vote preferences: A > B > C > D B > A > C > D A > B > C > D A > C > D > B etc It is something like peeling? Bill --- Joint Meeting of the Interface and Classification Society of North America http://ilya.wustl.edu/if_csna_2005_meeting/ Abstracts and Registration Deadline is 4/9/05 William D. Shannon, Ph.D. Associate Professor of Biostatistics in Medicine Division of General Medical Sciences and Biostatistics Washington University School of Medicine Campus Box 8005, 660 S. Euclid St. Louis, MO 63110 Phone: 314-454-8356 Fax: 314-454-5113 e-mail: [log in to unmask] web page: http://ilya.wustl.edu/~shannon