The mean absolute deviation in ranks between the direct prioritization ranking and the predicted rankings illustrates that the PTO-WAD not only produces the smallest number of errors, but also that these errors are less serious (table 4).
China ranks between 5th and 11th, depending on how Vietnam's official data is interpreted.
"Judge Judy" ranks between them, with 9.8 million viewers, on average.
Yet in various areas of commercial and investment banking, it ranks between No. 1 and No. 7, globally.
In the U.S. and British navies a lieutenant commander, as noted above, ranks between a lieutenant and a commander.
Measured in terms of foreign exchange reserves per inhabitant, China, with its enormous population, ranks between Indonesia and Thailand, he pointed out.
If there are 100 problems within the child welfare arena, the abandonment of infants ranks between No. 99 and 100 in severity.
And tellingly, there has been some breaking of ranks between the companies that make content and the people who send it through the pipes to consumers.
The new U.S.-led drive for accommodation was made possible by a split in Palestinian ranks between the moderate, largely secular Fatah and the radical Islamist Hamas.
These so-called comacates (an acronym based on the Spanish words for ranks between lieutenant and lieutenant-colonel) are seething over the behaviour of their superiors.
House of Fraser, along with Debenhams and Marks & Spencer, occupy less elevated ranks between them and "fast-fashion" retailers such as Primark.
