Multilateral Wellbeing Comparison in a Many Dimensioned World Ordering and Ranking Collections of Groups /

• Main Author: Anderson, Gordon (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Series: Global Perspectives on Wealth and Distribution,
• Subjects: Labor economics.; Econometrics.; Education-Economic aspects.; Health economics.; Labor Economics.; Education Economics.; Health Economics.

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...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Measuring the Wellbeing of Groups
• 2. Statistical Matters
• 3. Complete Orderings: Index Types and the Ambiguity Problem
• 4. Partial Orderings
• 5. Comparing Latent Subgroups
• 6. Ambiguity Comparability Segmentation and All That
• 7. Some Applications.