Dagum vs. Singh-Maddala income distributions

Economics Letters

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 265-268

  Kleiber, Christian ^a,b  

^a TU DORTMUND UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b Department of Economic Policy   (Lithuania)

Author keywords

Income distribution; Lorenz order; Parametric models

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030299474     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(96)00937-8     Document Type: Article

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