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Estimation of partial rankings from sparse, noisy comparisons
Sebastian Morel-Balbi, Alec Kirkley
Ranking items based on pairwise comparisons is common, from using match outcomes to rank sports teams to using purchase or survey data to rank consumer products. Statistical infere…
physics.soc-ph2024
Urban Boundary Delineation from Commuting Data with Bayesian Stochastic Blockmodeling: Scale, Contiguity, and Hierarchy
Sebastian Morel-Balbi, Alec Kirkley
A common method for delineating urban and suburban boundaries is to identify clusters of spatial units that are highly interconnected in a network of commuting flows, each cluster…