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COINr is an open-source R package for building and analysing composite indicators, developed by the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre.

So far in my few posts in this blog I’ve been writing about indicators. Actually I only started working in indicators around 2015.

Happy to announce the formal start of a new project. COINr! ….and what is that, you may ask. Well, let me begin with a bit of background. Building composite indicators requires quite a number of steps, including denomination, imputation, normalisation, weighting, aggregation, multivariate analysis, sensitivity analysis, visualisation and others besides.

Here’s something that crops up all the time in indicators, but is discussed less than you might think.