"rank the second" is a valid and usable phrase in written English.
You can use this phrase when you are indicating a position, ranking, or standing. For example, "My team ranked the second in the tournament."
For example, we would intuitively trust a rule with confidence = 0.999 and support = 0.1 much more than a rule with confidence = 1 and support = 0.001; however, the current ranking method would always rank the second rule higher.
People rank the second description higher than the first, even though, logically, its likelihood is smaller, because it requires two things to be true — that Linda is a bank teller and that Linda is an active feminist — rather than one.
Immigrants from Eastern Europe rank the second least-assimilated group; which is plausible since most of them have arrived only recently in Germany.
Each fingerprint was used to rank the second and subsequent members of each series by structural similarity with respect to the first member, the reference molecule.
The growth in membership is aligned with the explosive growth of interest, investment and activity that has allowed Germany to rank the second largest market by mobile ad spend in Europe, according to research firm eMarketer.
Felker proposed an alternative method[26]: all patients who met the worst event (i.e., death) during the follow-up would be assigned the worst ranks, in order to their time to event (e.g., the patient who died first would have the worst rank, the second patient who died the second worst rank).
