Change in Income Distribution in the presence of reporting errors

Mathematical and Computer Modelling

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 33-42

  Pham Gia, T ^a   Turkkan, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DE MONCTON   (Canada)

Author keywords

Appell function; Beta; Gamma; Gini index; Hypergeometric; Lorenz curve; Modelling

Indexed keywords

ERRORS; GEOMETRY; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PROBABILITY; STATISTICAL METHODS;

INCOME DISTRIBUTION; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 0031128352     PISSN: 08957177     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0895-7177(97)00047-2     Document Type: Article

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