eurovision: Multidimensional partial rank data: eurovision
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Multidimensional partial rank data: eurovision

Description

This dataset contains the ranking of the 8 common finalists of the Eurovision song contest from 2007 to 2012:

A: France, B:Germany, C:Greece, D:Romania, E:Russia, F:Spain, G:Ukraine, H:United Kingdom.

The number of rankings is 33, corresponding to the 33 European countries having participated to those six editions of the contest.

All the rankings are partial since none country has ranked this 8 countries in its 10 preferences. Missing ranking elements are zeros.

Format

A list containing:

data

A matrix of size 34*48. Each row corresponds to the ranking representation of a multidimensional ranking. Columns 1 to 8 correspond to the 2007 contest, columns 9 to 18 to the 2008 contest, etc...

The ranking representation r=(r_1,...,r_m) contains the ranks assigned to the objects, and means that the ith object is in r_ith position.

For example, if the ranking representation of a rank is (4,3,1,2,5), it means that judge ranks the first object in 4th position, second object in 3rd position, ...

frequency

A matrix of size 34*49 containing the different multidimensional rankings. The 48 first columns are the same as in data, and the last column contains the frequency (1 for all ranks).

m

a vector with the sizes of ranks for each dimension.