Concordance index is a measure of whether ranking of patients by staging is consistent with the ranking of their outcome.
Boeheim made it very clear that he was not concerned with the ranking.
With the ranking, Mr. Slater said, consumers can "make choices based on reason and reflection, rather than just the style and appearance of a given vehicle".
It was as if a child played 52 pick-up with the ranking and left the deck scattered on the floor.
The financial Web site crunched a variety of data on the cost of living, taxes, health care, crime and climate to come up with the ranking.
In 2003, in a civil suit brought by a firm dissatisfied with the ranking of Google's search results, Google asserted that its search results were constitutionally protected speech.
In a telephone interview, Mr. Yudof said he had a quibble with the ranking because $125,000 of his compensation from Texas was intended to make up for benefits he lost when he left his previous job in Minnesota.
"I'm delighted to be at the top of that list because I've worked hard to stay fit and I've worked hard on the consistency of my bowling, so it is nice to be rewarded with the ranking," said Broad.
This slope is correlated with the ranking of the department from USN&WR.
The computed binding free energies were consistent with the ranking of their experimental bioactivities.
RIL 149 and RIL 200 showed intermediate root characteristics with the ranking: RIL149 > RIL200.
