Using an artificial neural network for estimating sustainable development goals index
| Autor: | Seyed-Hadi Mirghaderi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Sustainable development
Index (economics) Artificial neural network Covariance matrix Computer science business.industry 020209 energy Public Health Environmental and Occupational Health 02 engineering and technology 010501 environmental sciences Management Monitoring Policy and Law Machine learning computer.software_genre 01 natural sciences Human capital Variable (computer science) Gross national income 0202 electrical engineering electronic engineering information engineering Artificial intelligence Hidden layer business computer 0105 earth and related environmental sciences |
| Zdroj: | Management of Environmental Quality: An International Journal. 31:1023-1037 |
| ISSN: | 1477-7835 |
| DOI: | 10.1108/meq-12-2019-0266 |
| Popis: | PurposeThis paper aims to develop a simple model for estimating sustainable development goals index using the capabilities of artificial neural networks.Design/methodology/approachSustainable development has three pillars, including social, economic and environmental pillars. Three clusters corresponding to the three pillars were created by extracting sub-indices of three 2018 global reports and performing cluster analysis on the correlation matrix of sub-indices. By setting the sustainable development goals index as the target variable and selecting one indicator from each cluster as input variables, 20 artificial neural networks were run 30 times.FindingsArtificial neural networks with seven nodes in one hidden layer can estimate sustainable development goals index by using just three inputs, including ecosystem vitality, human capital and gross national income per capita. There is an excellent similarity (>95%) between the results of the artificial neural network and the sustainable development goals index.Practical implicationsInstead of calculating 232 indicators for determining the value of sustainable development goals index, it is possible to use only three sub-indices, but missing 5% of precision, by using the proposed artificial neural network model.Originality/valueThe study provides additional information on the estimating of sustainable development and proposes a new simple method for estimating the sustainable development goals index. It just uses three sub-indices, which can be retrieved from three global reports. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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