In most health survey the state of health of individuals is measured through several different kinds of variables such as qualitative, discrete quantitative or dichotomic ones. From these variables, one aims at building univariate indices of health that summarize the information. To do so, we...

Robust statistics, as a concept, probably dates back to the prehistory of statistics. It has, however, been formalized in the sixties by the pioneering work of Huber and Hampel. Robust statistics is an extension of classical statistics, which takes into account the fact that models assumed to...

Poverty analysis often results in the computation of poverty indexes based on so-called poverty lines which can be region speci…c poverty lines. The poverty lines are made of two components, namely the amount of income to satisfy the food and the non food needs. For both components, one needs...