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Started by Fabrizio J Bonsignore
Sat, 01 Jan 2005 09:28
A classification infrastructure for socioeconomic data
Author: Fabrizio J Bonsignore
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 09:28
Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2005 09:28
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When classifying and comparing socioeconomic data for countries, most economists recur to the simplest data structure: the list. We ordered countries according to a single scale, a single quantity, and then we draw inferences from it. Our econometrics also tends to be linear. But linear structures may hide more interesting relationships than cannot be discovered by inspection, besides tending to rate countries in a `first is better` point of view. As an alternative, the same structure we use for color quantization, the octrie, can be used to ordered economic data according to two (or more) quantities, yielding both a classification and an ordering. This structure may help to order data in ways that can enrich the discussion of the phenomena being investigated.
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