Paired Comparisons for Paired Characteristics

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PAIRED COMPARISONS FOR MULTIPLE CHARACTERISTICS: AN ANOCOVA APPROACH by PRANAB

An analysis of covariance model is developed for paired comparisons to situations in which responses (on a preference order) to paired comparisons are obtained on some primary as well as concomitant traits. Along with the general rationality of the proposed test, its asymptotic properties are studied.

Interval Scales From Paired Comparisons

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Policy Search using Paired Comparisons

Direct policy search is a practical way to solve reinforcement learning (RL) problems involving continuous state and action spaces. The goal becomes finding policy parameters that maximize a noisy objective function. The Pegasus method converts this stochastic optimization problem into a deterministic one, by using fixed start states and fixed random number sequences for comparing policies (Ng ...

An impossibility theorem for paired comparisons

In several decision-making problems, alternatives should be ranked on the basis of paired comparisons between them. We present an axiomatic approach for the universal ranking problem with arbitrary preference intensities, incomplete and multiple comparisons. In particular, two basic properties – independence of irrelevant matches and self-consistency – are considered. It is revealed that there ...