要素均衡:人类发展指数的算法改进与实证研究  

Component Equilibrium:An Improved Composite Method and Its Empirical Test for HDI

作　　者：陆康强[1] 

机构地区：[1]复旦大学社会发展与公共政策学院

出　　处：《统计研究》2012年第10期45-51,共7页Statistical Research

摘　　要：人类发展指数是一个影响很大、应用很广的衡量人类发展成就的综合指标,但其传统算法存在两个统计缺陷:其一是缺乏对各向度本身的分布敏感性;其二是没有考虑各向度之间的均衡性。本文针对后者,采用测度准则法,提出一种以要素均衡为导向的人类发展指数改进法。实证研究显示,与人类发展指数的传统及现行算法相比较,此改进既能更好地体现人类发展的要义,也可提高人类发展指数的统计鉴别力,所以可作为计算人类发展指数的一种新选择。HDI is a well-known and widely used composite index,but it has two statistical defects in its traditional calculation method： one is that it has no distributional-sensitivity to each of its sub-indicators,and the other one is that it ignores the equilibrium among its dimensional indices.Focusing on the latter and following the axiomatic approach,this paper presents an improved method for HDI in component equilibrium oriented.The empirical results show that,compared to both the traditional and the existing composite method,this improved method can not only give better expression to the main idea of human development,but also improve HDI＇s statistical discrimination.So the improved method can be taken as a new choice for calculating HDI.

关 键 词：人类发展指数 要素均衡 准则法 

分 类 号：C812[社会学—统计学]