Complexity in Society: From Indicators Construction to their Synthesis

This volume discusses the many recent significant developments, and identifies important problems, in the field of social indicators. In the last ten years the methodology of multivariate analysis and synthetic indicators construction significantly developed. In particular, starting from the classic...

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Corporate Author SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors Maggino, Filomena (Editor)
Format Electronic eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2017.
SeriesSocial Indicators Research Series, 70
Subjects
Social sciences.
Medical research.
Statistics.
Quality of life.
elektronické knihy
electronic books
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9783319605951
ISSN1387-6570 ;
DOI10.1007/978-3-319-60595-1
Physical DescriptionXI, 332 p. online resource.

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Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Conceptual issues
  • Chapter 1. Epistemology of Complexity (Alberto Peruzzi)
  • Chapter 2. Building Knowledge. Between Measure and Meaning: A Phenomenological Approach (Rocco Sacconaghi)
  • Part 2. Methodological Issues
  • Chapter 3. Socio-Economic Statistics for A Complex World: Perspectives and Challenges in the Big Data Era (Marco Fattore)
  • Chapter 4. Developing Indicators and Managing the Complexity (Filomena Maggino)
  • Chapter 5
  • Dealing with Syntheses in a System of Indicators (Filomena Maggino)
  • Chapter 6. Scalability of Composite Indices: Complexity Complications (Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb, Xiaolu Zang)
  • Part 3. Technical Issues
  • Chapter 7. Synthesis of Indicators: The Composite Indicators Approach (Matteo Mazziotta & Adriano Pareto)
  • Chapter 8. Synthesis of Indicators: The Non-Aggregative Approach (Marco Fattore)
  • Chapter 9. The Role of Extended IRT Models for Composite Indicators Construction (Michela Gnaldi, Simone Del Sarto & Filomena Maggino)
  • Part 4. Particular Experiences
  • Chapter 10. Synthesis of Indicators Through Weighting: The Experiences of Quality of Life Measures (Chang-Ming Hsieh)
  • Chapter 11. The Role of Normalization in Building Composite Cndicators. Rationale and Consequences of Different Strategies (Ludovico Carrino)
  • Chapter 12. Steps Towards a Synthetic Measure Derived from a Partially Ordered Set (Giovanna Boccuzzo & Giulio Caperna)
  • Chapter 13. Joint analysis of Structural Models and Performance: Merging Clustering and Composite Indicators in the Analysis of Europe 2020 strategy (Tommaso Rondinella & Elena Grimaccia).

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