Weights and importance in composite indicators: Closing the gap

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 80, Issue , 2017, Pages 12-22

  Becker, William ^a   Saisana, Michaela ^a   Paruolo, Paolo ^a   Vandecasteele, Ine ^a  

^a JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Composite indicators; Correlation; Gaussian process; Optimisation; Sensitivity analysis; Smoothing; Splines

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPLINES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

AGGREGATION PROCESS; BAYESIAN GAUSSIAN PROCESS; COMPOSITE INDICATORS; ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; GAUSSIAN PROCESSES; OPTIMISATION PROCEDURES; OPTIMISATIONS; SMOOTHING;

SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; ENVIRONMENTAL INDICATOR; GAUSSIAN METHOD; OPTIMIZATION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; RANKING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SMOOTHING; SUSTAINABILITY; WEIGHT;

EID: 85018368939     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2017.03.056     Document Type: Article

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