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1 Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004: Summary Technical Report. Scottish Executive, Edinburgh, 2004.
2 Scottish Neighbourhood Statistics Data Zones: Background Information. Scottish Executive, Edinburgh, 2004.
3 Measuring deprivation in Scotland: developing a long-term strategy. Scottish Executive Central Statistics Unit, 2003
4 McConnachie A, Weir C. Evaluation of Statistical Techniques in the Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation: Final Report.
5 The same effect could equally be seen in a data zone with low levels of deprivation within an otherwise deprived LA. However, the focus of the SIMD 2004 is more on identifying areas of high, rather than low deprivation, so this effect would not result in a miscounting of the number of highly deprived data zones within a LA.
6 The standard Normal cumulative distribution function, F, converts x (defined to have a standard Normal distribution) to a Uniform distribution, achieving the same result as ranking, but without removing the relative degrees of separation between data zones.
7 Goldstein H, Spiegelhalter DJ. League Tables and Their Limitations: Statistical Issues in Comparison of Institutional Performance. JRSS A 1996; 159: 385-443.
8 Spiegelhalter DJ, Thomas A, Best NG, Lunn D. WinBUGS version 1.4 user manual. MRC Biostatistics Unit, Cambridge, available from www.mrc-bsu.cam.ac.uk/bugs:2003.
9 Scottish Index of Multiple Deprivation 2004: Summary Technical Report. Scottish Executive, Edinburgh, 2004.
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