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Record Nr.

UNINA9910252697903321

Titolo

Complexity in Society: From Indicators Construction to their Synthesis / / edited by Filomena Maggino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2017

ISBN

3-319-60595-X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2017.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (332 pages) : illustrations, tables

Collana

Social Indicators Research Series, , 1387-6570 ; ; 70

Disciplina

301.0723

Soggetti

Social sciences

StatisticsĀ 

Quality of life

Methodology of the Social Sciences

Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law

Quality of Life Research

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.

Nota di contenuto

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).

Sommario/riassunto

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 classical theory of composite indicators many interesting approaches have been developed to overcome the weaknesses of composites. This volume focuses on these recent developments in synthesizing indicators, and more generally, in quantifying complex phenomena.