This paper provides an insight into measuring financial inclusion through a multidimensional index of in Southeast European countries (SEE). We used two-stage principal component analysis to extract dimensions inclusion. Data were obtained from two sources, the World Bank Global Findex Survey (WB-GFS) data base and International Monetary Fund Financial Access (IMF-FAS), for twelve SEE years 201...

A new solution to the additive constant problem in metric multidimensional scaling is developed. This solution determines, for a given dimensionality, the additive constant and the resulting stimulus projections on the dimensions of a Euclidean space which minimize the sum of squares of discrepancies between the formal model for metric multidimensional scaling and the original data. A modificat...

as the ADO, DOSE, HADO, CPI, etc., have been developed and validated as potential multidimensional tools to evaluate the risk of mortality in COPD patients [4] . The ADO index (age, dyspnea, and airway obstruction) was first proposed and validated by Puhan et al. [5] in two different COPD cohorts: a Swiss population of severe COPD and a Spanish population of COPD recruited after their first adm...

Multidimensional poverty concentrates on deprivations in the living standard of a population in terms of functioning failures of different quality of life attributes such as per capita real GDP, life expectancy at birth and educational attainment. More precisely, a threshold level is specified for each attribute and shortfalls of quantities of different attributes from respective thresholds for...

For Hill’s equations with matrix valued periodic potential, we discuss relations between the Morse index, counting the number of unstable eigenvalues, and the Maslov index, counting the number of signed intersections of a path in the space of Lagrangian planes with a fixed plane. We adapt to the one dimensional periodic setting the strategy of a recent paper by J. Deng and C. Jones relating the...