Ilves and Laitila (2009) propose a two-step procedure for selective editing. According to their approach, in addition to the units selected as affected by influential errors, a sample from the remaining observations is drawn in order to remove the possible residual bias. In this paper, the use...

Data editing, a crucial task in the data production process, has received little scientific attention. Consequently, there is no consensus among social scientists about how data should be edited or by whom. While some argue that it should be left to data managers and data users, others claim...

Voting theory has always focused on mechanism design, but this paper shows that voting theory is also a useful tool in the field of preference representation. Both the lexicographic order on n-dimensional Euclidean space and the threshold of detectable difference relation are pairwise majority...

This paper deals with a special kind of complex systems which depend on an arbitrary (and usually large) number n of random Boolean variables. The so-called complex stochastic Boolean systems often appear in many different scientific, technical or social areas. Clearly, there are 2n binary...

It is often advisable to combine spatial representation tools such as Geographic Information Systems (GIS) with Multi criteria Decision Making Methods (MCDM) when solving location complex problems. The current case refers to the search for and selection of sites for onshore wind farms on the...

We characterize lexicographic preferences on product sets of finitely many coordinates. The main new axiom is a robustness property. It roughly requires this: Suppose x is preferred to y; many of its coordinates indicate that the former is better and only a few indicate the opposite. Then the...

Positive and negative predictive values are important measures of accuracy whenone compares the accuracy of diagnostic tests. When more than one diagnostic tests areavailable, one may has to choose one of the possible diagnostic tests due to cost, time, orethical reason. We consider a pair study...

In the first part of the dissertation, we derive two methods for responders analysis in longitudinal data with random missing data. Often a binary variable is generated by dichotomizing an underlying continuous variable measured at a specific point in time according to a prespecified threshold...