相対評価指標としての回帰偏差値 : 都道府県ランキングの読み方 <論文>

Levels of Social Capital in the Japanese prefectures were estimated on the basis of the Studentized regression residuals (R-score) of ten kinds of social statistics such as number of murders, suicides. The partial correlation between the R-scores was extremely high and was shown to reflect a direct effect of Social Capital in the latent factor analysis. Thus, the estimated Social Capital could be used as a control index to evaluate the strength of the social indicators ever reported. The six social indicators (the Terashima&#39;s Happiness Index, the Kobayashi &#39;s Happiness Index for children, the Sakamoto&#39;s Happiness Index, the Wealth Index made by the Cabinet&#39;s Office, the Social Capital Index made by Cabinet&#39;s Office, and the Yamauchi&#39;s Civil Society Index) that were reported to represent wealth and/or happiness in community were rated in terms of how strong they reflected Social Capital by comparing with the average R-score.