PlackettLuce
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Plackett-Luce Models for Rankings
Heather Turner, David Firth, Ioannis Kosmidis
Last update: 16 June 2023
Copyright license: GNU General Public License, version 3.0
Software version identifier: 0.4.2, 0.2-1, 0.2-2, 0.2-3, 0.2-5, 0.2-6, 0.2-8, 0.2-9, 0.3.1, 0.3.2, 0.4.0, 0.4.1, 0.4.3
Functions to prepare rankings data and fit the Plackett-Luce model jointly attributed to Plackett (1975) <doi:10.2307/2346567> and Luce (1959, ISBN:0486441369). The standard Plackett-Luce model is generalized to accommodate ties of any order in the ranking. Partial rankings, in which only a subset of items are ranked in each ranking, are also accommodated in the implementation. Disconnected/weakly connected networks implied by the rankings may be handled by adding pseudo-rankings with a hypothetical item. Optionally, a multivariate normal prior may be set on the log-worth parameters and ranker reliabilities may be incorporated as proposed by Raman and Joachims (2014) <doi:10.1145/2623330.2623654>. Maximum a posteriori estimation is used when priors are set. Methods are provided to estimate standard errors or quasi-standard errors for inference as well as to fit Plackett-Luce trees. See the package website or vignette for further details.
