Le Tour 2007
That's it for the 2007 chaos tour. Looking at the time distributions makes everybody above the median quite suspicious ... more doping cases to come - maybe including A.C.
Although many people claim little interest in the tour after the many doping cases, this is all the more a reason to check whether we will find a structural change of the 2007 race compared to the races of the years 2006 and 2005.
| Stage Results | cumulative Time | Ranks |
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Prologue: Andreas KLÖDEN - one of the "last big ones" left - No.2
Stage 01: calm ride through the English country side ...
Stage 02: one big crash and one time for all
Stage 03: CANCELLARA defends the jersey impressively
Stage 04: HUSHOVD'S day!
Stage 05: VINOKOUROV falls back after his crash
Stage 06: Another day to rest - not only for VINOKOUROV and KLÖDEN
Stage 07: GERDEMANN aiming at white, rewarded with yellow - more than a 1-shot?
Stage 08: Nobody could stop RASMUSSEN!
Stage 09: Last stage in the Alpes and 18 drop-outs so far
Stage 10: German television stops live broadcasting after SINKEWITZ's case came up
Stage 11: VANSEVENANT 'defends' his last place successfully ...
Stage 12: A day to rest on the bike.
Stage 13: VINOKOUROV "found his legs again", at least for a day.
Stage 14: RASMUSSEN still in yellow - despite the doping case ...
Stage 15: Another stage for VINOKOUROV
Stage 16: VINOKOUROV's case end the tour for team Astana
Stage 17: "A team a day keeps doping away ..."
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(Thanks to Sergej for updating the scripts)
this is a valid question, though I am not sure yet how much you could read from the ranks of other kinds of data - can you provide an example which is structural different from sports rankings and yet worth to look at the ranks?
Cheers
Martin (Comment this)
Sorry, no examples in particular. It just seems like a nice way to impose a common scale on all the variables, with a natural link to many non-parametric statistics.
Hadley (Comment this)