Misc. Stats Topics Discussion > Formalizing Opinion from set of people
First of all, allow me to apologize for the extremely delayed nature of my response. Unfortunately, my forum notifications were being sent to an inactive email, so I didn't become aware of new posts for a long time.
With that said, I'm not sure I completely understand your question, so if you can provide some additional context, I might be able to help further. From what you said, a Wilcoxon Signed-Rank test might be what you are looking for, but I can't be sure without additional info.
February 23, 2012 |
Jeremy Taylor
Jeremy Taylor
We got a 5 Causes for a problem and asked several people to rank them with the descending order or priority (They can choose NA if they are not sure). This was done since there is no direct way to measure the criticality of each. The table below gives the result.
Is there a way to rank the causes according to the priority taking into consideration of individual’s opinion? (We used to do simple average, but that does not look like the right way)
Cause Opinion1 Opinion2 Opinion3
1 NA 4 NA
2 3 2 4
3 2 5 1
4 1 3 3
5 NA 1 2