Ranking and Prioritization for Multi-indicator Systems Introduction to Partial Order Applications /

• Main Authors: Brüggemann, Rainer (Author), Patil, Ganapati P. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Environmental and Ecological Statistics
• Subjects: Statistics.; Statistics for Engineering, Physics, Computer Science, Chemistry and Earth Sciences.; Statistics for Life Sciences, Medicine, Health Sciences.

Ranking issues are found everywhere. For example, bank houses, universities, towns, watersheds etc. are ranked. But also assessment of students in one discipline is a ranking. This last example is trivial, because we have only one criterion, namely the quality of the student in that discipline. In t...

Table of Contents:

• Preface
• Why Prioritization, Why Ranking
• Partial Order and Hasse Diagrams
• Simple Combinatorial Structures
• Sensitivity and Ambiguity
• Structures of Partial Orders
• Hasse Diagrams Based on Transformed Data Matrices
• Reducing the Number of Incomparabilities
• Formal Concept Analysis
• Methods to Obtain Linear or Weak Orders by Means of Partial Order
• Comparison of Partial, Linear and Weak Orders
• Illustrative Case Studies
• Case Studies: Child Development (Sociology)
• Case Study: Stream Channel Stability Infrastructure at Bridge Crossings (Engineering Sciences)
• Case Study: Watersheds Analysis (Hydrology)
• Case Study: Environmental Performance Index (EPI) (Human and Environmental Health)
• Partial Order and Related Disciplines
• Partial Order and Software
• Ranking and Prioritization with Partial Order for Multi-Indicator Systems - An Integrative View with a Look Forward
• Appendix
• Index.