This paper develops two statistical techniques for analysing ranked data. The first technique can be used in designs in whichcindependent groups of subjects are asked to rank orderpobjects with respect to a specified criterion. An explicit statement of a statistic which can be used to determine whether differences in ranking patterns exist between the groups is presented together with associatedpost hocprocedures. The statistic is a generalization of a technique developed by Hollander&Sethuraman (1978). The second technique developed can be used in designs in which subjects incindependent groups are each asked to rank order a set ofpitems with respect to a certain criterion underqdifferent conditions of ranking. An explicit statement of a statistic which can be used to test the groups by items by conditions three‐way interaction hypothesis is presented together with an analysis strategy for testing the other effects of interes