Using ranked weights and Shannon entropy to modify regional sustainable society index

Sustainable Cities and Society

Volumn 41, Issue , 2018, Pages 443-448

  Wu, Sisi ^a   Fu, Yelin ^b,c   Shen, Hai ^d   Liu, Fan ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY OF CHINA   (China)

^b SHENZHEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HONG KONG   (Hong Kong)

^d XI'AN INTERNATIONAL STUDIES UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Geometric mean; Preferences; Shannon entropy weights; Spearman's rank correlation coefficients; Sustainable Society Index

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; LINEAR TRANSFORMATIONS; MATHEMATICAL TRANSFORMATIONS;

GEOMETRIC MEAN; PREFERENCES; SHANNON ENTROPY; SPEARMAN'S RANK CORRELATION COEFFICIENTS; SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY;

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

EID: 85048296744     PISSN: 22106707     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scs.2018.05.052     Document Type: Article

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