Evaluation of the Fourth Millennium Development Goal Realisation using Robust and Nonparametric Tools offered by a Data Depth Concept

Kosiorowska, Ewa; Kosiorowski, Daniel; Zawadzki, Zygmunt

doi:10.1515/foli-2015-0021

Author

Kosiorowska Ewa, Kosiorowski Daniel (Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie), Zawadzki Zygmunt (Uniwersytet Ekonomiczny w Krakowie)

Title

Evaluation of the Fourth Millennium Development Goal Realisation using Robust and Nonparametric Tools offered by a Data Depth Concept

Source

Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia, 2015, vol. 15, nr 1, s. 34-52, rys., tab., bibliogr. 15 poz.

Keyword

Analiza statystyczna, Umieralność niemowląt, Koncepcja głębi danych
Statistical analysis, Infant mortality, Data depth concept

Note

summ.

Company

Organizacja Narodów Zjednoczonych (ONZ)
United Nations (UN)

Abstract

We briefly communicate the results of nonparametric and robust evaluation of the effects of the Fourth Millennium Development Goal of the United Nations. The main aim of the goal was reducing by two thirds, from 1990-2015, under five month's child mortality. Our novel analysis was conducted by means of very powerful and user friendly tools offered by the Data Depth Concept being a collection of multivariate techniques basing on multivariate generalizations of quintiles, ranges and order statistics. The results of our analysis are more convincing than the results obtained using classical statistical tools.(original abstract)

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The Main Library of the Wroclaw University of Economics

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ISSN

1730-4237

Language

eng

URI / DOI

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