linear_aggregation: Linear Aggregation

In Indicator: Composite 'Indicator' Construction and Imputation Data

Linear Aggregation

Description

This is a function to apply linear aggregation index

Usage

linear_aggregation(data, weights = rep(1/ncol(data), ncol(data)))

Arguments

data	dataframe with rows = observations and columns = quantitative variables
weights	vector of weights (default all weights = 1/ ncol(dataframe))

Value

It returns a dataframe with rows = observations and column = composite indicator

References

OECD/European Union/EC-JRC (2008), Handbook on Constructing Composite Indicators: Methodology and User Guide, OECD Publishing, Paris, <https://doi.org/10.1787/9789264043466-en>

Examples

data("Education")
Indicator=linear_aggregation(Education)
print(Indicator)

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