Human capital index (HCI), male, upper bound (scale 0-1)

The HCI upper bound reflects uncertainty in the measurement of the components and the overall index. It is obtained by recalculating the HCI using estimates of the upper bounds of each of the components of the HCI. The range between the upper and lower bound is the uncertainty interval. While the uncertainty intervals constructed here do not have a rigorous statistical interpretation, a rule of thumb is that if for two countries they overlap substantially, the differences between their HCI values are not likely to be practically meaningful.

HCI上限反映了HCI各组成部分以及该指数整体的测量不确定性。此上限值通过采用HCI各组成部分的上限估计值重新计算HCI而获得。上下限之间的区间即为不确定性区间。尽管本文构建的不确定性区间不具备严格的统计学解释依据，但经验法则表明：若两个国家的不确定性区间出现大幅重叠，则两国HCI数值间的差异在实际应用中通常不具备实质意义。