EVALUATION OF STATISTICAL TECHNIQUES IN THE SCOTTISH INDEX OF MULTIPLE DEPRIVATION

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Appendix C.

This Appendix contains for each alternative algorithm, summaries of SIMD decile distributions, mean SIMD rank, concentration scores and extent scores, as defined in Section 3.6, in groups of data zones defined by the SE Urban/Rural Indicator and by LA.

Table C.1 Original SIMD ranks

Table C.2 SIMD ranks (no shrinkage)

Table C.3 SIMD ranks (national shrinkage)

Table C.4 SIMD ranks (IG shrinkage)

Table C.5 SIMD ranks (Rural Group shrinkage)

Table C.6 SIMD ranks (Factor analysis without prior transformation)

Table C.7 SIMD ranks (Factor analysis with prior ranking only)

Table C.8 SIMD ranks (Factor analysis with ranking & Exponential transformation)

Table C.9 SIMD ranks (Principal components Analysis with ranking & Standard Normal transformation)

Table C.10 SIMD ranks (Principal components Analysis without prior transformation)

Table C.11 SIMD ranks (Principal components Analysis with ranking only))

Table C.12 SIMD ranks (Principal components Analysis with ranking and Exponential transformation)

Table C.13 SIMD ranks (Generalised Factor Analysis)

Table C.14 SIMD ranks (simple standarisation of domain scores prior to weighted combination)

Table C.14 SIMD ranks (with domain scores combined by methods described in Section 9.5.3)

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