Weighting methods in the construction of area deprivation indices

Fam, Soo Fen and Ismail, Noriszura and Jemain, Abdul Aziz and Maukar, Anastasia Lidya and Yanto, Heri and Prastyo, Dedy Dwi and Chuan, Zun Liang (2018) Weighting methods in the construction of area deprivation indices. Journal Of Fundamental And Applied Sciences, 10 (6S). pp. 2655-2668. ISSN 1112-9867

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Abstract

This study applies and compares several weighted average (WA) methods and Principal Component Analysis (PCA) for the construction of composite area-based deprivation index. The WA methods are based on weights that depend on standard deviation, correlation and data entropy. This paper also proposes three new approaches of WA method by suggesting their respective weights to depend on mean absolute deviation, inter-quartile range and data entropy where the probability is estimated by empirical density function and Gaussian kernel function. The deprivation indices produced by WA methods and PCA are then utilized to rank deprivation level of eighty-one administrative districts in Peninsular Malaysia.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Deprivation index, Weighted average, PCA, Entropy, Gaussian kernel function
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > H Social Sciences (General)
Divisions:	Faculty of Technology Management and Technopreneurship > Department of Technopreneurship
Depositing User:	Mohd Hannif Jamaludin
Date Deposited:	05 Mar 2020 12:07
Last Modified:	06 Jun 2023 14:55
URI:	http://eprints.utem.edu.my/id/eprint/24007
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