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Q: how to rank a list of elements?

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  • Subject: [mg23105] Q: how to rank a list of elements?
  • From: d8442803 at student.nsysu.edu.tw (Wen-Feng Hsiao)
  • Date: Wed, 19 Apr 2000 02:30:40 -0400 (EDT)
  • Organization: NSYSU
  • Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Dear all,

I would like to obtain the ranking of a list of elements. So I conduct 
the following procedure:

In[60]:=
pseudo = {15, 7, 15, 1}
pseudoSort = pseudo // Sort
ranks = Position[pseudoSort, #] & /@ pseudo
rmDuplicate[ranks] // Flatten

Out[60]=
{15, 7, 15, 1}
Out[61]=
{1, 7, 15, 15}
Out[62]=
{{{3}, {4}}, {{2}}, {{3}, {4}}, {{1}}}
Out[63]=
{3, 2, 4, 1}

However, there are two questions: 1) the ranking is not quite correct, in 
which the tie situation is not addressed well in my procedure. Is 
there any system defined function for this purpose? And, 2) the function 
rmDuplicate is written in procedural way, i.e., using For to remove 
duplicated elements, could someone help/show me using functional or rule 
way to design this function? Thanks for your help.

Wen-Feng


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