The advantages of this approach include the following: modelling of non-linear behaviour; accommodation of imprecision in the normalisation of the data; aggregation without subjective allocation of weights to the indicators; ranking of alternatives in such a way that the output value can be treated as the health value or integrity index.
Confidence intervals are also reported as an alternative indicator of significance indicating that the population mean will fall within the respective range in 95%% of samples.
The inadequacies of current tumor marker panels have led to the exploration of alternative indicator molecules, among which proteins from the mucin and cadherin family have taken on a distinctive role.
There exists a school of social indicators (see the Social Indicators Research journal) which fights this influence and the number of alternative indicators (of happiness, genuine progress, social health, economic well-being, etc).
Her list of alternative indicators of student knowledge, skill, interest and ability are all worth pursuing.
Using a variety of alternative indicators we derive implications for the use and the proper interpretation of individual measures.
Thoughtful economists have been proposing a variety of alternative indicators to broaden the scope of the gross domestic product to honor and reflect the value of parks, schools, volunteerism, air and water quality, literacy, civility, even solitude and sunsets.
Besides, in the case of the terms of trade, a REER appreciation occurs in a country when the income effect is greater than the substitution effect; and given that our choice of alternative indicators has led to samples of quite different sizes, statistically significant results are contingent upon the countries included in each sample.
The second paper by Pearse et al. [ 2] pursues the issue of alternative indicators of an adequate oxygen delivery further.
Of course, in the age of Internet dating services and other means of communication between potential partners, the age-specific sex composition and population density of the local area are not the only possible indicators of the availability of alternative partners and the costs of finding new partners.
