Measuring fuel poverty in tropical territories: A latent class model

A Multidimensional Approach to Measuring Poverty and the Assessment of Educational Poverty in Iran

A Multidimensional Approach to Measuring Poverty and the Assessment of Educational Poverty in Iran1   E. Aboonoori, Ph.D. * A.A. Saalem, Ph.D. ** J. Arab Yaarmohammadi ***   A multidimensional approach to measuring poverty facilitates the assessment of educational poverty as one of its several dimensions. Utilizing this approach, the overall poverty in Iran in the years of 2005 ...

Bootstrap methods for measuring classification uncertainty in latent class analysis

This paper addresses the issue of classification uncertainty in latent class analysis. It proposes a new bootstrap-based approach for quantifying the level of classification uncertainty at both the individual and the aggregate level. The procedure is illustrated by means of two applications.

Latent class regression model in IRLS approach

Keywords--Regress ion, Latent classes, Iteratively reweighted least squares. I. I N T R O D U C T I O N We consider simultaneous constructing of several regressions by subsets of a given data set. Such an approach corresponds to so-called latent class models known in various statistical applications [1-3]. Latent class techniques are applied in factor and scaling analyses [4-8], structural equa...

Measuring and analyzing poverty in rural areas of Kouhdasht county

Like developing countries, our country faces the problem of poverty and the spread of this phenomenon in rural areas and is one of the most important problems in rural areas. Measuring and identifying poverty is an integral part of the knowledge needed to formulate programs and policies for poverty alleviation in society and can be a powerful tool for policymakers' attention to the living condi...

Understanding fuel expenditure: Fuel poverty and spending on fuel