Our measure of social rank was objective in that it gauged the precise rank of each person's income or wealth within defined groups such as age-bands, education levels, and geographic regions.
In evaluating rank-flexible predictions, we define the taxonomic precision (the rank at which the classification is made) and accuracy (the most precise rank in the prediction that is correct).
For the global algorithm, we increased the number of thresholds to 200 to achieve a more precise ranking of the genes.
There is no precise ranking of the world's most deadly cities for migratory birds, but Toronto is considered a top contender for the title.
"Although a precise ranking is not possible, analysis shows than many pension funds from the UK have a large exposure to the carbon bubble.
But because GDP statistics and purchasing-power-parity adjustments are both rough-and-ready, the OECD says that it makes much more sense to put countries into broad groups than into a precise ranking.
Nor is it obvious that labour-market and product-market policies should have identical weights.Given all this, it would be wrong to bet much on a country's precise ranking.
BriefMe displays its precise rank for every story in the app, so readers can quickly see just how widely distributed a given story is.
Up and down the wall, hundreds of little white plaster divers are deployed in precise ranks, ready to spring outward.
If an organism in a community has sequenced relatives only at higher taxonomic ranks, such as class, then classification to a more precise rank will be impossible, and even assignment to the correct phylum will be difficult because of the extensive variation in DNA residue composition and gene content within most phyla (Brady and Salzberg, 2009; Parks et al., 2011; Perry and Beiko, 2010).
