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Success-volume relationships in funnel plots

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Since their first use in the context of performance assessment, funnel plots have become an established means of comparing outcomes of entities (broadly defined) in a transparent way which helps the plots’ users both to account for natural variation and to avoid spurious ranking. In this work a method is described by which outcome-volume relationships can be incorporated into funnel plots. It uses a regression based on a double exponential relationship of the form [1-exp(-a(n^b))]. Illustrative examples of the use of this method to compare performance in research funding competitions, healthcare and baseball are given.

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  • Hulkes, Alexander, 2025. "Success-volume relationships in funnel plots," SocArXiv pumt9_v1, Center for Open Science.
    • Handle: RePEc:osf:socarx:pumt9_v1
    DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/pumt9_v1
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    1. Abramo, Giovanni & D’Angelo, Andrea Ciriaco & Grilli, Leonardo, 2016. "From rankings to funnel plots: The question of accounting for uncertainty when assessing university research performance," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 10(3), pages 854-862.
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