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Región y sociedad

On-line version ISSN 2448-4849Print version ISSN 1870-3925

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ROMO LOZANO, José Luis; ZAMUDIO SANCHEZ, Francisco José; MARTINEZ GOMEZ, Gladys  and  RODRIGUEZ ESPARZA, Luz Judith. Using a dominance criterion to select a human development index. Región y sociedad [online]. 2018, vol.30, n.71. ISSN 2448-4849.  https://doi.org/10.22198/rys.2018.71.a776.

The purpose of this study was to compare, via a dominance analysis, two subjective and three objective indexes by using the standard deviation, CRITIC and entropy methods in order to determine the dominant index. The methodologies used are based on the index theory and the dominance analysis in network theory. One of the subjective indexes turned out to be the dominant one, which uses basic services in resource dimension for a dignified life. This result, like others, is constrained by the inability of indexes (aggregates of two or more variables) to be subject to an order relation as the one established in the number line; for this reason they are empirical and only indicate certain regularity. The contribution here is the diversity of human development indexes used, which lead to combine statistical-mathematical techniques in order to compare them. Basic services prove to be a reasonable option for a dignified life in human development.

Keywords : weighting; indices; dominance.

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