Multilateral Wellbeing Comparison in a Many Dimensioned World
Ordering and Ranking Collections of Groups
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Beschreibung
This book addresses the disparities that arise when measuring and modeling societal behavior and progress across the social sciences. It looks at why and how different disciplines and even researchers can use the same data and yet come to different conclusions about equality of opportunity, economic and social mobility, poverty and polarization, and conflict and segregation. Because societal behavior and progress exist only in the context of other key aspects, modeling becomes exponentially more complex as more of these aspects are factored into considerations. The content of this book transcends disciplinary boundaries, providing valuable information on measuring and modeling to economists, sociologists, and political scientists who are interested in data-based analysis of pressing social issues.
This book addresses the disparities that arise when measuring and modeling societal behavior and progress across the social sciences. It looks at why and how different disciplines and even researchers can use the same data and yet come to different conclusions about equality of opportunity, economic and social mobility, poverty and polarization, and conflict and segregation. Because societal behavior and progress exist only in the context of other key aspects, modeling becomes exponentially more complex as more of these aspects are factored into considerations. The content of this book transcends disciplinary boundaries, providing valuable information on measuring and modeling to economists, sociologists, and political scientists who are interested in data-based analysis of pressing social issues.
Analyzes and explains dissimilarities of distributions in many dimensions Introduces recently developed indices and tests for ordering groups and measuring dissimilarity Outlines a process for identifying the number, size and determinants of latent subgroups
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Gordon Anderson
Themen in »Multilateral Wellbeing Comparison in a Many Dimensioned World«
distribution theory Discrete Unordered Outcome Variables Exceptionality Parametric Models Gini Transvariation Distributional Overlap goodness of fit Kolmogorov - Smirnov Dominance orderings