Someone once said, and it may have been me, that statisticians will apply
statistical reasoning to anything except the sort of things they do
themselves, so that they don't use theory of experimental design for
designing their simulations, for example, and they will re-scale
examination marks in statistics papers using any stupid method at all.
However, there must be a considerable literature on the subject of
combining and re-scaling marks. One paper known to me is that of Krzanowski
et al in JRSS C 1985. I was recently asked for advice on this subject from
a non-statistical department and was rather embarrassed that there was not
a great deal I could say. Does anybody have any recommendations for
suitable reading?
Stephen Senn
Stephen Senn
Professor of Statistics
Department of Statistics
15 University Gardens
<http://www.gla.ac.uk>University of Glasgow
G12 8QQ
Tel: +44 (0)141 330 5141
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