Composite Indices: Rank Robustness, Statistical Association, and Redundancy

DOI10.1080/07474938.2012.690647zbMath1491.91092OpenAlexW1976041028MaRDI QIDQ5080538

James E. Foster, Mark McGillivray, Suman Seth

Publication date: 31 May 2022

Published in: Econometric Reviews (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1080/07474938.2012.690647

zbMATH Keywords

Kendall's tauredundancycomposite indexpositive associationmultidimensional indexhuman development indexrank robustnessprevalence function

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Measures of association (correlation, canonical correlation, etc.) (62H20) Decision theory (91B06) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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