XploRe Help : rank

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Library:	xplore
See also:	sort order

Quantlet:		rank
Description:		Computes the rank vector of a given vector.

Usage:	`r = rank (x)`
Input:
	`x`	n vector
Output:
	`r`	n vector consisting of the ranks

Note:

If observations are equal, midranks are computed.

Example:

library("xplore") x = #(4,1,6,5,4) rank(x)

Result:

Contents of r
[1,]   2.5
[2,]     1
[3,]     5
[4,]     4
[5,]   2.5

Author: T. T. Koetter, 19961125 license MD*Tech