This project contains 4 components: 1. **[First Application: Movie Popularity][2]**: this folder contains the data acquired from [ranker.com][3] where 28 people provided top-*n* lists of a total of 59 movies, the BUGS model file for the Thurstonian top-*n* model, and the R script to draw the posterior samples from [JAGS][4]. 2. **[Second Application: Predicting the World Cup][5]**: this folder contains the data acquired from [ranker.com][6] where 31 people provided top-*n* lists of a total of 32 teams in the World Cup 2014, the BUGS model file for the Thurstonian top-*n* model that incorporates the bracket priors, and the R script to draw the posterior samples from [JAGS][7]. 3. **[Third Application: Groups of Political Opinions][8]**: this folder contains the data acquired from [ranker.com][9] where 99 people provided top-*n* lists of a total of 46 presidents, the BUGS model file for the Thurstonian top-*n* model that incorporates the bracket priors, and the R script to draw the posterior samples from [JAGS][10]. 4. **[General Files][1]**: this folder contains R functions that we used for all three applications. [1]: https://osf.io/2abxr/wiki/home/ [2]: https://osf.io/w5ei9/wiki/home/ [3]: http://ranker.com "ranker.com" [4]: http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net/ [5]: https://osf.io/5dtih/wiki/home/ [6]: http://ranker.com "ranker.com" [7]: http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net/ [8]: https://osf.io/q2rpe/wiki/home/ [9]: http://ranker.com "ranker.com" [10]: http://mcmc-jags.sourceforge.net/