Lippe, Peter von der; Kladroba, Andreas - In: Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer … 224 (2004) 1-2, pp. 115-134
A popular and widespread, though rarely ever scrutinised method of measuring a complex multidimensional construct y consists of adding the scores (Wert), ..., (Wert) assigned to a unit in in "dimensions". These scores ("indicators") are supposed to represent the in relevant aspects of y....
