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Synthetic indices are a way of condensing complex situations to give one single value. A very common example of this in environmental studies is that of air quality indices; in their construction, statistics is helpful in summarizing multidimensional information. In this work, we are going to consider synthetic air-quality indices as random quantities, and investigate their main properties by comparing the confidence bands of their cumulative distribution functions.
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Bruno, F., Cocchi, D. (2011). Interpreting Air Quality Indices as Random Quantities. In: Ingrassia, S., Rocci, R., Vichi, M. (eds) New Perspectives in Statistical Modeling and Data Analysis. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-11363-5_49
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