Fuzzy measurement of income inequality: Some possibility results on the fuzzification of the Lorenz ordering

Economic Theory

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 513-530

  Ok, Efe A ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Basu's fuzzy measure of inequality; Confidence intervals; Fuzzy orderings; Income inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0030306651     PISSN: 09382259     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/BF01213664     Document Type: Article

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