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Preventive coercive measures are an increasingly common feature of the legal landscape. Examples are the preventive imprisonment of dangerous individuals after the expiration of their sentences, the involuntary commitment of dangerous individuals to mental institutions purely to protect the...
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This paper provides a method to make robust multidimensional poverty comparisons when one or more of the dimensions of well-being or deprivation is discrete. Sampling distributions for the statistics used in these poverty comparisons are provided. Several examples show that the methods are both...
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This paper provides a method to make robust multidimensional poverty comparisons when one or more of the dimensions of well-being or deprivation is discrete. Sampling distributions for the statistics used in these poverty comparisons are provided. Several examples show that the methods are both...
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measurement designs, where the design matrix for each set of measurements is orthonormal. Such a design may, for instance, be used …
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The joint implications for welfare measurement of three recent literatures are considered: the behavioral welfare … statistics are further suggested for general equilibrium welfare measurement. Under certain assumptions about endogenous … government behavior, robust concepts of economic welfare measurement emerge that rationalize the terminology and concepts of …
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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...
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Educational measurement assigns numbers to individuals based on observed data to represent individuals’ educational … statistical applications to educational measurement, ranging from classical statistical theory (e.g., Pearson correlation and the …
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question, and while criticism is often accepted, little is done to correct them. In reality, there is a prolific measurement …
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