Refining State Level Comparisons in India
Published By: Planning Commission on eSS | Published Date: June, 01 , 2012The performance of Indian States are analyzed across three critical sectors –
health, education and infrastructure are analyzed. An index is constructed for each using the Principal Component
Analysis technique. This technique assigns weights according to the relationship
between the variables, thus involving relatively low levels of subjectivity on part of the
researcher, while preserving most of the information in the original data set. [Planning Commission]. URL:[http://planningcommission.nic.in/reports/articles/article_state.pdf].
Author(s): Pranjul Bhandari | Posted on: Jun 10, 2013 | Views(549) | Download (577)