Un indice sintetico non compensativo per la misura della dotazione infrastrutturale: un’applicazione in ambito sanitario

Matteo Mazziotta () and Adriano Pareto ()
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Matteo Mazziotta: Italian National Institute of Statistics
Adriano Pareto: Italian National Institute of Statistics

Rivista di statistica ufficiale, 2011, vol. 13, issue 1, 63-79

Abstract: The aim of this work is to provide a tool for the measurement of the health infrastructure endowment based on the assumption of “non-substitutability” of the indicators (a compensation among them is not allowed). The proposed approach, called “Method of Penalties by Coefficient of Variation”, normalizes the indicators by a specific criterion that deletes the unit of measurement and the variability effect and uses, as aggregation function, an adjusted mean by a penalty coefficient that is function, for each unit, of the indicators’ variability in relation to the mean. The obtained index is easily computable, interpretable and comparable over time. As an example of application, we consider a set of indicators of endowment of advanced medical equipment.

Keywords: indici sintetici; infrastrutture; sanità (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C10 I12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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