Fuzzy measures of the incidence of relative poverty and deprivation: A multi-dimensional perspective

Statistical Methods and Applications

Volumn 17, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 225-250

  Betti, Gianni ^a   Verma, Vijay ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SIENA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Fuzzy set operators; Income poverty; Membership function; Multi dimensional deprivation; Set aggregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 42449149957     PISSN: 16182510     EISSN: 1613981X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10260-007-0062-8     Document Type: Article

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