Partial order concepts in applied sciences. (2016)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Marco Fattore, Rainer Brüggemann.
• Editors: Fattore, Marco; Brüggemann, Rainer
• Contents: Part I.Theoretical and methodological advances.-1.Endowing posets with flesh: if, why and how?.-2.Incomparability/inequality measures and clustering.-3.Incomparable – what now, IV. Incomparabilities - a modeling challenge.-4.Partial Ordering and Metrology Analyzing Analytical Performance.-5.Functionals and synthetic indicators over finite posets.-6.Evaluation, considered as problem orientable mathematics over lattices.-7.A combined lexicographic-average rank approach for evaluating uncertain multi-indicator matrices with risk metrics.- Part II.Partial Order Theory in socio-economic sciences.-8.Peculiarities in multidimensional regional poverty.-9.Application of Partial Order Theory to Multidimensional Poverty Analysis in Switzerland.-10.Analysis of social participation: a multidimensional approach based on the theory of partial ordering.-11.POSET analysis of panel data with POSAC.-12.Partially Ordered Set Theory and Sen's capability approach: a fruitful relationship.- Part III.Partial Order Theory in environmental sciences.-13.Ranking Chemicals with Respect to Accidents Frequency.-14.Formal Concept Analysis applications in chemistry: from radionuclides and molecular structure to toxicity and diagnosis.-15.Partial Order Analysis of the government dependenceof the Sustainable Development Performance inGermany´s Federal States.- Part IV.New applications of Partial Order Theory.-16.A matching problem, partial order and an analysis applying the Copeland index.-17.Application of the Mixing Partial Order to Genes.-18.Analysing ethnopharmacological data matrices on traditional uses of medicinal plants with the contribution of Partial Order Techniques.-Part V.Software developments.- 19.PARSEC: An R package for partial orders in socio-economics.- 20.PyHasse and cloud computing.div>.
• Publisher Details: Cham : Springer
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (307 pages)
• Subjects: 511.32; Environment; Partially ordered sets; Social Science -- Statistics; Mathematics -- Probability & Statistics -- General; Social research & statistics; Probability & statistics; Environmental sciences; Statistics; Science -- Environmental Science; The environment
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9783319454214
• Related ISBNs: 9783319454191
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