The most important (facilitating or impeding) factor was assigned ranking 1, the second most important factor was assigned ranking 2, etc.
The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM) assigns ranks to coals on the basis of fixed carbon content, volatile matter content, and calorific value.
Poker is based on assigning ranked value to different combinations of cards.
Based on this score, we assign ranks and compare the number of contesting behaviors exhibited by dominant and subordinate bulls.
Whether one refers to a clade of lizards as a family or subfamily is arbitrary, and some classifications do not assign ranks (such as order, family, and genus) at all.
A specific application can assign ranks or weights to individual classes based on their importance for a particular use case.
We sort this function in ascending order and assign ranks to get its associated rank function, (r_{RC}) (see the example in Table 2).
Also, Zermelo set theory does not prove the existence of transitive closures of sets, which makes it difficult to assign ranks to sets in general.
That is, a participant might reason that, because he or she is certain that the face ranked first is a previously studied face, a participant would arbitrarily assign ranks to the remaining alternatives.
This does not mean, however, that she believes A to a positive degree − the agent may suspend judgment and assign rank 0 to both A and W \ A. So belief in a proposition is characterized by disbelief in its negation.
We used the hierarchy for each group having the largest posterior probability to assign rank.
