Ambiguity, Comparability, Segmentation and All That

Gordon Anderson ()
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Gordon Anderson: University of Toronto

Chapter Chapter 6 in Multilateral Wellbeing Comparison in a Many Dimensioned World, 2019, pp 153-180 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract This chapter considers in detail the issue of ambiguity associated with a collection of indicators. By considering the circumstances under which an ordering would be unambiguous, it develops measures of the extent to which a collection of indicators could be ambiguous in a given situation. A methodology for dividing a collection of distributions into sets of “unambiguous subgroups” is also proposed. This chapter ends with an empirical example of ambiguity in ordering the income distributions of nations in the Eurozone.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21130-1_6

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