The phrase "assign a ranking" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to the act of giving a position or level to something based on a specific criterion or set of criteria.
Example: "In order to evaluate the candidates effectively, we need to assign a ranking based on their qualifications and experience."
Alternatives: "give a rating" or "establish a hierarchy".
Voters were asked to assign a ranking to each actor as it applied to the actor as an individual and not in comparison with other actors.
Farber asked students to assign a ranking from 7 to 1 to each day of the week based on how much they liked the day, with 1 given to the most liked day and 7 to the most disliked day.
In the training procedure, the aim of LOR is to train a local ranking model f(T, C) = f(x) that can assign a ranking score to a given target-compound pair T and C, with the feature vector x representing the whole target-compound pair [37].
Therefore, the proposed system uses the AHP methodology to assign a rank to each task based on its length and run time.
These functions were used to assign a rank to each possible conformation.
To compare with our approach to elicit preference-based weights, panel members were also asked to directly assign a rank order to the seven criteria and mean ranks were calculated.
Subsequently, we devised a methodology to assign a rank to each node according to its potential for influencing the network's behaviour.
We propose weighted hypergeometric and weighted chi-squared methods in order to assign a rank to the degree to which each gene participates in the enrichment.
This average Z score was then used to assign a rank (see Reiter and Eva and Streiner and Norman for worked examples of this analysis) [ 10, 16].
The rank functions rx'(d) and ry'(d) from U x, y) to N = {1, 2,..., p} assign a rank to each region after sorting the scores given by sx'(d) and sy'(d) in descending order, respectively.
The Spearman rank correlation coefficient is calculated on occasions when it is not possible to give actual values to variables, but only to assign a rank order to instances of each variable.
