When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based … upon ordinal data and more standard indices using ordinal data which has been transformed into cardinal data. This paper … ordinal and cardinal based indices. There is relatively little sensitivity to the ethical choices made by the analyst in terms …

When measuring health inequality using ordinal data, analysts typically must choose between indices specifically based … upon ordinal data and more standard indices using ordinal data which has been transformed into cardinal data. This paper … ordinal and cardinal based indices. There is relatively little sensitivity to the ethical choices made by the analyst in terms …

under which the use of cardinal method to an ordinal variable gives an illusionary sense of robustness, while in fact one … descriptive analysis or linear regressions-ignores that the underlying collected well-being information is ordinal. If the well …-being function is ordinal, then monotonic transformations are allowed. We demonstrate that treating ordinal data by methods intended …

under which the use of cardinal method to an ordinal variable gives an illusionary sense of robustness, while in fact one … descriptive analysis or linear regressions-ignores that the underlying collected well-being information is ordinal. If the well …-being function is ordinal, then monotonic transformations are allowed. We demonstrate that treating ordinal data by methods intended …

like the Pigou-Dalton transfer, but without the requirement - that would be senseless in an ordinal setting - that the …

€™s basketball rankings. The ordinal approach they take removes some subjectivity from the Rating Percentage Index (RPI). Just as … Pareto relationships are obtained without subjective cardinal weighting schemes, the dominance relationships applied here … eliminate the subjectivity of cardinal weighting. Because heated debate inevitably ensues after the NCAA Selection Committeeâ …

inequality of income and expenditure over that period. The paper calculates Lorenz and Generalised Lorenz curves and also the … examines the composition of changes in inequality of income over the period. …