The following ICML paper may be relevant to your question:

http://www-2.cs.cmu.edu/~lebanon/papers/cranking-icml.pdf

Best,

Martin

On Wed, 9 Mar 2005, shannon wrote:

> 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
> ---