Socioeconomic Influence on Cardiac Mortality in the South Asian Region: New Perspectives from Grey Modeling and G-TOPSIS

Table 4

Definition of the decision parameters.

Parameters	Evaluating grey relational association between CVD mortality and associated factors among SAARC countries
SAARC countries (Cp); p = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8	Pakistan (C1)
	Bangladesh (C2)
	Maldives (C3)
	Afghanistan (C4)
	Nepal (C5)
	India (C6)
	Sri Lanka (C7)
	Bhutan (C8)
Explanatory variables (Fk); k = 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6	Urbanization (F1)
	Population growth (F2)
	HDI (F3)
	Access to energy (F4)
	Unemployment (F5)
	Public health expenditure (F6)