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Rank robustness of composite indices : dominance and ambiguity
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Many structures in economics – from development indices to expected utility – take the form of a linear composite index, which aggregates linearly across multiple dimensions using a vector of weights. Judgments rendered by composite indices are often given great importance, yet by definition are contingent on an initial vector of weights. A comparison made with one weighting vector could be robust to variations in the weights or, alternatively, it may be reversed at some other plausible ve...
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Economic and Social Research Council
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Robertson Foundation
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Georg-August-Universität Göttingen
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- Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) Publisher's website
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- OPHI working paper
- Publication date:
- 2012-01-01
- ISSN:
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2040-8188
- Paper number:
- 26b
- ISBN:
- 9781907194436
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- English
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- 2012
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