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Ambiguity, Comparability, Segmentation and All That

In: Multilateral Wellbeing Comparison in a Many Dimensioned World

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  • Gordon Anderson

    (University of Toronto)

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This chapter considers in detail the issue of ambiguity associated with a collection of indicators. By considering the circumstances under which an ordering would be unambiguous, it develops measures of the extent to which a collection of indicators could be ambiguous in a given situation. A methodology for dividing a collection of distributions into sets of “unambiguous subgroups” is also proposed. This chapter ends with an empirical example of ambiguity in ordering the income distributions of nations in the Eurozone.

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  • Gordon Anderson, 2019. "Ambiguity, Comparability, Segmentation and All That," Global Perspectives on Wealth and Distribution, in: Multilateral Wellbeing Comparison in a Many Dimensioned World, chapter 0, pages 153-180, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:gpochp:978-3-030-21130-1_6
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-21130-1_6
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