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<h3 class="section">12.4 Computing the rank</h3>
<p>The <em>rank</em> of an element is its order in the sorted data.  The rank
is the inverse of the index permutation, <var>p</var>.  It can be computed
using the following algorithm,
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<pre class="example">for (i = 0; i < p->size; i++) 
{
    size_t pi = p->data[i];
    rank->data[pi] = i;
}
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<p>This can be computed directly from the function
<code>gsl_permutation_inverse(rank,p)</code>.
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<p>The following function will print the rank of each element of the vector
<var>v</var>,
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print_rank (gsl_vector * v)
{
  size_t i;
  size_t n = v->size;
  gsl_permutation * perm = gsl_permutation_alloc(n);
  gsl_permutation * rank = gsl_permutation_alloc(n);
  gsl_sort_vector_index (perm, v);
  gsl_permutation_inverse (rank, perm);
  for (i = 0; i < n; i++)
   {
    double vi = gsl_vector_get(v, i);
    printf ("element = %d, value = %g, rank = %d\n",
             i, vi, rank->data[i]);
   }
  gsl_permutation_free (perm);
  gsl_permutation_free (rank);
}
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