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PUBLICATION | 2014
The WJP team invited the JRC for the fourth consecutive year to delve into the statistical properties of the revised Rule of Law Index, so as to ensure the transparency and reliability of the results and to enable...
PUBLICATION | 2014
The Watts poverty index is the first distribution-sensitive poverty measure, and it was proposed in 1964 by Harold W. Watts (1964). The index is computed by dividing the poverty line...
PUBLICATION | 2014
A standard score indicates how many standard deviations a datum is above or below the population/sample mean. It is derived by subtracting the population/sample mean from an individual raw score...
PUBLICATION | 2014
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) Education Index is published in the context of the Human Development Report (HDR), and it is one of the three components of the Human Development Index...
PUBLICATION | 2014
The analysis of variance (ANOVA) aims at partitioning the observed variance in a particular variable into components attributable to different sources of variation. In its simplest form, ANOVA provides a statistical...
PUBLICATION | 2014
The Addiction Severity Index (ASI) is a semi-structured (∼1 h) face-to-face interview that aims to determine the client’s level of stability and to offer a better understanding of life events that contribute...
PUBLICATION | 2014
The Barthel index measures the likelihood of being able to live at home with a degree of independence following discharge from hospital. Ten basic activities of daily living (ADL) are...
PUBLICATION | 2014
The Environmental Sustainability Index (ESI) benchmarks the ability of nations to protect the environment over the next several decades. The 2005 ESI integrates 76 variables into 21 indicators...
PUBLICATION | 2014
Multidimensional measures, else termed composite indicators, are meant to give signals of society’s performance in complex fields, such as innovation, competitiveness, and poverty. They are...