Identities in combinatorics. III: Further aspects of ordered set sorting (Q1068087)

Given two multi-sets of non-negative integers, we define a measure of their common values called the crossing number and then use this concept to provide a combinatorial interpretation of the q-Hahn polynomials and combinatorial proofs of the q-analogs of the Pfaff-Saalschutz summation and the Sheppard transformation.