Messung komplexer Variablen als Summe von Punktzahlen / Measuring Complex Variables by Sums of Scores: Eine beliebte Methode des measurement without theory / A Popular and Questionable Method of Measurement Without Theory

Peter von der Lippe and Kladroba Andreas ()
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Kladroba Andreas: Universität Duisburg-Essen, Campus Essen, FB 5, Universitätsstraße 12, D-45117 Essen, Germany

Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 2004, vol. 224, issue 1-2, 115-134

Abstract: A popular and widespread, though rarely ever scrutinised method of measuring a complex multidimensional construct y consists of adding the scores x1, ..., xm assigned to a unit in m “dimensions”. These scores (“indicators”) are supposed to represent the m relevant aspects of y. Interestingly the sum-of-scores method (SSM) is not only lacking a theoretical justification there is not even a clear understanding of the relevance of the correlation between the indicators for y. The paper therefore aims at relating the SSM to methods of multivariate analysis and tries to clarify the role of weights in the summation of scores.

Keywords: Scoring; multivariate analysis; empirical economic and social research; Indexmethode; multivariable Analyse; empirische Wirtschafts- und Sozialforschung; Scoring; multivariate analysis; empirical economic and social research (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2004
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DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-2004-1-210

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