States of India. We go on to present an analysis of the current status and the Policy Frameworks underlying the top … performing States of India, as measured by the ASEPI …

two is far more complicated for developing countries like India, given the dependence of a large section of the population …

(with and without outliers/data corruption). Weights of different indicator variables are obtained by maximization of the … sum of squared (and, alternatively, absolute) correlation coefficients of the composite indices with the constituent … indicator variables. Seven different types of correlation are used: Karl Pearson, Spearman, Signum, Bradley, Shevlyakov …

absolute correlation are less susceptible to effects of outliers. This paper proposes a method to obtain composite indices by …Effects of outliers on mean, standard deviation and Pearson’s correlation coefficient are well known. The Principal … variables and hence may be very sensitive to effects of outliers in data. Median, mean deviation and Bradley’s coefficient of …