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Publication details

Publisher: Springer

Place: Berlin

Year: 2017

ISBN (Hardback): 9783319605937

ISBN (eBook): 9783319605951

Full citation:

Filomena Maggino (ed), Complexity in society, Berlin, Springer, 2017

Complexity in society

Contents

Complexity

between rhetoric and science

Alberto Peruzzi

3-50

Socio-economic statistics for a complex world

perspectives and challenges in the big data era

Marco Fattore

71-86

Scalability of composite indices

complexity complications and findings from 15 years of monitoring child and youth well-being in the united states

Kenneth C. Land, Vicki L. Lamb, Xiaolu Zang

139-156

Synthesis of indicators

the composite indicators approach

Matteo Mazziotta, Adriano Pareto

159-191

Synthesis of indicators

the non-aggregative approach

Marco Fattore

193-212

Synthesis of indicators through weighting

the experiences of quality of life measures

Chang-ming Hsieh

231-249

The role of normalisation in building composite indicators

rationale and consequences of different strategies, applied to social inclusion

Ludovico Carrino

251-289

Evaluation of life satisfaction in Italy

proposal of a synthetic measure based on poset theory

Giovanna Boccuzzo, Giulio Caperna

291-321

Joint analysis of structural models and performance

merging clustering and composite indicators in the analysis of Europe 2020 strategy

Tommaso Rondinella, Elena Grimaccia

323-332