USAranks

Random subset of the rankings collected by O&#39;Leary Morgan and Morgon (2010) on the 50 American States. The 368 number of items (the number of American States) is equal to 50, and the number of rankings is equal to 104. These data concern rankings of the 50 American States on three particular aspects: socio-demographic characteristics, health care expenditures and crime statistics.

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Compute the median ranking according to the Kemeny's axiomatic approach.
Rankings can or cannot contain ties, rankings can be both complete or incomplete.
The package contains both branch-and-bound algorithms and heuristic solutions recently proposed.
The package also provide some useful utilities for deal with preference rankings.
Essential references:
Emond, E.J., and Mason, D.W. (2002) <doi:10.1002/mcda.313>;
D'Ambrosio, A., Amodio, S., and Iorio, C. (2015) <doi:10.1285/i20705948v8n2p198>;
Amodio, S., D'Ambrosio, A., and Siciliano R. (2016) <doi:10.1016/j.ejor.2015.08.048>;
D'Ambrosio, A., Mazzeo, G., Iorio, C., and Siciliano, R. (2017) <doi:10.1016/j.cor.2017.01.017>.

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