Evaluation of the Fourth Millennium Development Goal Realisation using Robust and Nonparametric Tools offered by a Data Depth Concept

• Authors: Ewa Kosiorowska , Daniel Kosiorowski , Zygmunt Zawadzki
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

We briefly communicate the results of nonparametric and robust evaluation of the effects of the Fourth Millennium Development Goal of the United Nations. The main aim of the goal was reducing by two thirds, from 1990-2015, under five month’s child mortality. Our novel analysis was conducted by means of very powerful and user friendly tools offered by the Data Depth Concept being a collection of multivariate techniques basing on multivariate generalizations of quintiles, ranges and order statistics. The results of our analysis are more convincing than the results obtained using classical statistical tools.

Keywords

EN

The Fourth Millennium Goal; Data Depth Concept; Statistical Evaluation

• Publisher: Sciendo
• Journal: Folia Oeconomica Stetinensia
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 34-52

Dates

published

2015-06-01

received

2014-10-10

accepted

2015-05-10

online

2015-12-30

Contributors

author

Ewa Kosiorowska

• General Practitioner, Internist Katowice, Poland

author

Daniel Kosiorowski

• Cracow University of Economics Department of Statistics Rakowicka 27, 31-510 Cracow, Poland

author

Zygmunt Zawadzki

• Cracow University of Economics Master Studies Rakowicka 27, 31-510 Cracow, Poland

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Identifiers

DOI

10.1515/foli-2015-0021