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Our daily life is filled with indicators: I.Q., Dow Jones, GNP, air quality, physicians per capita, poverty index, social position index, consumer price index, rate of return,… If you read a newspaper, you could feel that these magic numbers rule the world.
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Bouyssou, D., Marchant, T., Pirlot, M., Perny, P., Tsoukiàs, A., Vincke, P. (2000). Constructing Measures: The Example of Indicators. In: Evaluation and Decision Models. International Series in Operations Research & Management Science, vol 32. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1593-7_4
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