Iteracyjne elastyczne rangowanie województw Polski ze względu na poziom rozwoju przemysłu
Iterative flexible ranking of Poland’s provinces with respect to industry development level

Summary/Abstract: Linear ordering or ranking of administrative geographical units is widely found in statistical andregional literature. The selection of available variables to characterize general criteria is a key problem insuch ordering and it is impossible to name the ideal list of variables for any practical problem as the selectionis always somehow subjective. The method proposed in the article allows non -identical sets of variablesto be used. The initial list of variables being standardized is the same for all but at each step one variable iseliminated – the one with the highest moduls of standardized value. The procedure combines two previouslyproposed methods – flexible ordering with step -wise elimination of extreme values (Sokołowski, Markowska,2019), and iterative ordering with new standardization at each step (Sokołowski, Markowska, 2017). It isimportant to study how the ranking changes with each step of variable elimination – possibly different varia-bles are eliminated for different objects. The flexible ranking of Poland’s provinces, characterized by the levelof industry, is presented as an illustrative example. The initial list of characteristics consists of 14 variablespublished in Poland’s Provinces Yearbook 2021 (GUS, 2022).

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