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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Die High-Level-Group for the Modernization of Official Statistics der Wirtschaftskommission der Vereinten Nationen für Europa hatte für die Jahre 2019 und 2020 ein Machine-Learning-Projekt initiiert. Das Projekt ermöglichte die Durchführung von Pilotstudien, um den Mehrwert maschinellen...

Fehlende Werte in den Erhebungsdaten stellen für die amtliche Statistik eine Herausforderung dar. Ein falscher Umgang mit ihnen kann die Ergebnisse verzerren. Zudem machen große Datenmengen und hohe Anforderungen an die Aktualität der Daten zunehmend automatisierte Plausibilisierungs- und...