Data aggregation in constructing composite indicators: A perspective of information loss

Expert Systems with Applications

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 360-365

  Zhou, Peng ^a   Fan, Li Wei ^b   Zhou, De Qun ^a  

^a NANJING UNIVERSITY OF AERONAUTICS AND ASTRONAUTICS   (China)

^b NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SINGAPORE   (Singapore)

Author keywords

Aggregation; Composite indicator (CI); Distance; Entropy; Multiple criteria decision analysis (MCDA)

Indexed keywords

AGGREGATION; AGGREGATION METHODS; AGGREGATION MODEL; COMPOSITE INDICATOR (CI); COMPOSITE INDICATORS; CONSTRUCTION SCHEME; DATA AGGREGATION; DATA AGGREGATION PROBLEMS; DECISION SUPPORTS; DISTANCE; DISTANCE-BASED; INFORMATION LOSS; MINIMUM INFORMATION LOSS; MULTIPLE CRITERIA DECISION ANALYSIS (MCDA); PERFORMANCE COMPARISON; PUBLIC COMMUNICATIONS; QUALITATIVE DATA; WIDE SPECTRUM;

DECISION MAKING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; ENTROPY;

DECISION THEORY;

EID: 70349464454     PISSN: 09574174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.eswa.2009.05.039     Document Type: Article

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