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Constructing composite indices
International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy, 2018Purpose The purpose of this paper is to construct, for the first time, composite index for Egypt that measures the economic and social rights fulfillment (ESRF) based on socioeconomic surveys at the household/individual levels. Design/methodology/approach The paper highlights some of the statistical debatable issues about composite indices and ...
Eman Refaat, Ali Hadi
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On aggregating Benefit of the Doubt composite indicators
European Journal of Operational Research, 2018zbMATH Open Web Interface contents unavailable due to conflicting licenses.
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Composite Indicators of Development
2017Development is a complex and multidimensional phenomenon. The quantification of such a phenomenon requires indicators that may capture its most important components. In this chapter we present an extensive list of composite indicators of development, identifying their main possible common dimensions: income, income distribution, education, health ...
Sandrina B. Moreira, Nuno Crespo
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Composite indicators: A sectorial perspective
2012Financial analysts, managers, lenders and academic researchers widely use financial ratios. For example, financial analysts use them to predict how well the securities of one company will perform relative to that of another one, and lenders use them to predict if the borrower will be able to sustain interests and pay the principal.
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ASSESSING THE ROBUSTNESS OF COMPOSITE INDICES RANKINGS
Review of Income and Wealth, 2011Ranking objects in terms of different attributes is a crucial practice that is typically sensitive to the choice of attributes' weights. In this paper we present rigorous methods to assess the extent to which the weight‐based rankings are robust to the choice of alternative weights.
Permanyer, Iñaki
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2023
The process of synthesizing indicators can be faced through two different approaches, aggregative-compensative and nonaggregative. Composite indicators can be included in the former approach.
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The process of synthesizing indicators can be faced through two different approaches, aggregative-compensative and nonaggregative. Composite indicators can be included in the former approach.
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New Fuzzy Composite Indicators for Dyslexia
2019Composite indicators should ideally identify multidimensional concepts that cannot be captured by a single variable. In this paper, we suggest a method based on fuzzy set theory for the construction of fuzzy synthetic indexes of dyslexia, using the set of manifest variables measured by means of reading tests.
MORLINI, Isabella, SCORZA, Maristella
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Composite Indicators as a Norm
This paper examines how the geometric structure of norms can be used to construct composite indicators in a coherent and transparent way. A central issue in the literature concerns the choice of aggregation rules, since many commonly used methods introduce discontinuities, assume full compensability between dimensions, or yield indicators with limited ...Eduardo Jiménez-Fernández +1 more
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The Use of Composite Indicators
Financial Analysts Journal, 1965THE ARTICLE "A Criterion of Business Activity" (by Adam Gostomski and Bohdan J. Kekish) in the March-April 1965 issue of the Financial Analysts Journal prompts me to raise a few questions and make a few comments based on several years of experience in dealing with leading indicators.
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Composite Indicators for Finance
2007Quando si tratta di affrontare problemi in campo finanziario, sono spesso coinvolte variabili complesse che non si prestano ad essere misurate in maniera diretta. Si pensi ad un analista che deve decidere sull’acquisto di azioni di una società quotata.
MAROZZI, Marco, L. SANTAMARIA
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