Uncertainties and Ambiguities in Percentiles and how to Avoid Them

2012/05/16 by Schreiber, Michael
#Digital Libraries (cs.DL) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Physical sciences #Other Statistics (stat.OT) #Physics and Society (physics.soc-ph)

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1205.3588

Abstract

The recently proposed fractional scoring scheme is used to attribute publications to percentile rank classes. It is shown that in this way uncertainties and ambiguities in the evaluation of percentile ranks do not occur. Using the fractional scoring the total score of all papers exactly reproduces the theoretical value.

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