American Statistician

[RobinHankin]

As per the editor's comment in #230

[RobinHankin]

submitted:

16-May-2024

Dear Dr Hankin:

Your manuscript "A simplified Plackett-Luce likelihood function for rank orders" has been successfully submitted online. I will presently review the files and information and, if everything is in order, will forward it to the Editor for consideration for publication in The American Statistician.

Your manuscript ID is TAS-24-106.

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Sincerely, Ms Janet Wallace The American Statistician Editorial Coordinator

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[RobinHankin]

email from the editorial office (ehich included an attachment giving style guidelines):

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16-May-2024

TAS-24-106 - A simplified Plackett-Luce likelihood function for rank orders

Dear Dr Hankin,

Thank you for submitting your manuscript to The American Statistician. However, before I forward your manuscript to the editor, the following formatting correction is required:

1. Please edit the in-text citations to follow ASA style. The basic style is Author/s Year; we do not use numbers to identify citations within the text. If you used LaTeX, this may be a latex-to-pdf conversion step which was missed.

2. If easily accomplished, please reformat the reference section to better follow ASA style. Authors should be listed by their last name followed by initials.

I appreciate your attention to these details.

3. Please make these corrections to the anonymous and author-identified manuscript files and EMAIL NEW PDF FILES TO ME. I will upload the files to ScholarOne. Once the files are uploaded, I will forward your manuscript to the Editor.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Janet

Janet Wallace TAS Editorial Coordinator

[RobinHankin]

The American Statistician onbehalfof@manuscriptcentral.com 6:29 PM (26 minutes ago) to me

PLEASE BE CERTAIN YOUR REPLY EMAIL IS GOING TO AMERICAN.STATISTICIAN@GMAIL.COM. THANK YOU.

20-May-2024

TAS-24-106 - A simplified Plackett-Luce likelihood function for rank orders

Dear Dr Hankin,

Thank you for submitting your manuscript to The American Statistician. However, before I forward your manuscript to the editor, the following formatting correction is required:

1. Please edit the in-text citations to follow ASA style. The basic style is Author/s Year; we do not use numbers to identify citations within the text. If you used LaTeX, this may be a latex-to-pdf conversion step which was missed.

2. If easily accomplished, please reformat the reference section to better follow ASA style. Authors should be listed by their last name followed by initials.

I appreciate your attention to these details.

3. Please make these corrections to the anonymous and author-identified manuscript files and EMAIL NEW PDF FILES TO ME. I will upload the files to ScholarOne. Once the files are uploaded, I will forward your manuscript to the Editor.

Please let me know if you have any questions.

Sincerely,

Janet

Janet Wallace TAS Editorial Coordinator

[RobinHankin]

replied to the email of 20 May just now:

Dear Janet

please find attached updated PDF manuscripts for

TAS-24-106 - A simplified Plackett-Luce likelihood function for rank orders

as per your request.

Best wishes

Robin

[attachments]

[RobinHankin]

email from the editorial board of American Statistician:

Dear Robin,

Thank you for making the requested modification. The new files are in place and your manuscript is with Dr. Minge Xie, editor.

Regards,

Janet

[RobinHankin]

22-Jul-2024

RE: TAS-24-106, "A simplified Plackett-Luce likelihood function for rank orders"

Dear Dr Hankin:

Thank you for submitting the above manuscript for possible publication in The American Statistician (TAS). TAS receives many papers and can publish only a very small fraction. From a screen review and my own reading, we feel that the scope and depth of the development are limited especially for the general audience of TAS. Given the publication space constraint, we will not move your manuscript forward in TAS.

I'm sorry if this decision is disappointing for you. Whatever you decide to do with the paper, I wish you the best in finding it a proper venue.

Sincerely,

mxie@stat.rutgers.edu