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Scoring functions are measures that reduce multi-dimensional records to a single value, highlighting some particular property of the data. A familiar example of scoring functions are those used to assign student grades in courses such as mine. Students can then be ranked (sorted) according to these numerical scores, and later assigned letter grades based on this order.
Money is a scoreboard where you can rank how you're doing against other people.
– Mark Cuban
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Skiena, S.S. (2017). Scores and Rankings. In: The Data Science Design Manual. Texts in Computer Science. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55444-0_4
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