| 来源类型 | Conference or Workshop Item
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| 规范类型 | 其他
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| Composite indices of sustainable development: an Information Theory approach. |
| Stapleton, Lee; Garrod, Guy
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| 发表日期 | 2007
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| 出版年 | 2007
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| 语种 | 英语
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| 摘要 | Although a principal driving force behind the formulation of composite indices of sustainable development is to try and simplify the state of the world into a few key numbers (as opposed to having to refer to an array of simple non-aggregated indicators) do they really simplify or beget complexity? By definition, composite indices of sustainable development are further removed from reality compared to simple indicators because of, for example, 1) assumptions that the functional form used to combine different indicators is correct 2) assumptions that any weights used to prioritise different indicators within a given functional form are correct. This would appear to suggest that composite indices do introduce additional complexity which is not associated with simple indicators. Information Theory has been applied to problems in many fields over the last 50 years such as electrical engineering, linguistics and psychology. More recently it has been applied within the environmental sciences to determine, for example, whether more complex models of terrestrial nutrient flux are justified compared to simpler, nested alternatives (Stapleton et al., In Press). This work seeks to address whether and how Information Theory can be used to assess if the complexity of composite indices is justified, using the UN Development Programme's Human Development Index as an illustrative example. |
| 特色分类 | HA Statistics
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| URL | http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/55141/
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| 来源智库 | Science Policy Research Unit (United Kingdom)
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| 资源类型 | 智库出版物
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| 条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/466442
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Stapleton, Lee,Garrod, Guy. Composite indices of sustainable development: an Information Theory approach.. 2007.
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