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Grafting, Locations, and Ordinal Dispersion

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Locations, fulfilling the conditions that measures of location should satisfy, and dispersions whose behavior mimics that of entropy, are introduced in the framework of weighted rooted trees. Ordinal dispersion, introduced by Leti in 1983 as a measure of dispersion for ordinal variables, is generalized in this framework, and a relation with dispersions of classical type is established. A concordance measure coherent with ordinal dispersion is introduced.

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  1. Institute of Mathematics of the Romanian Academy, 21 Calea Griviţei, 010736, Bucharest, Romania

    Tiberiu Spircu

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  1. Department of Automation and Applied Informatics, Aurel Vlaicu University of Arad, Arad, Romania

    Valentina Emilia Balas

  2. Faculty of Science and Technology, Data Science Institute, Bournemouth University, Poole, United Kingdom

    Lakhmi C. Jain

  3. University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia

    Branko Kovačević

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Spircu, T. (2016). Grafting, Locations, and Ordinal Dispersion. In: Balas, V., C. Jain, L., Kovačević, B. (eds) Soft Computing Applications. SOFA 2014. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 356. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-18296-4_14

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