The Research of the Social Stability Based on Measure of Gross National Happiness

Author

Tong, Hengqing ; Wang, Wenjuan ; Liu, Hengwen

Author_Institution

Dept. of Math., Wuhan Univ. of Technol., Wuhan, China

fYear

2009

fDate

11-13 June 2009

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

4

Abstract

Gross National Happiness (GNH) is a very important reflection of the stability of society , it also reacts the stability of society. In this paper, on the basic of the stability of society we build a scientific index system of GNP, which includes 5 first-degree indexes and 21 second-degree indexes, to evaluate the level of national well-being. Based on these indexes and relationships among them, we use structural equation model (SEM) in the evaluation. In addition, we introduce a new algorithm to find the best initial value in partial least square (PLS) algorithm of SEM with unit vector constraint and its least square solution.

Keywords

least squares approximations; psychology; social sciences computing; societies; gross national happiness; partial least square algorithm; social stability; structural equation model; vector constraint; Economic indicators; Environmental economics; Equations; Humans; Least squares methods; Mathematics; Numerical analysis; Psychology; Reflection; Stability;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Bioinformatics and Biomedical Engineering , 2009. ICBBE 2009. 3rd International Conference on

Conference_Location

Beijing

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-2901-1

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-2902-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICBBE.2009.5163656

Filename

5163656