Robust methods for the analysis of income distribution, inequality and poverty

International Statistical Review

Volumn 68, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 277-293

  Victoria Feser, Maria Pia ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Censored data; Grouped data; Income distribution; Inequality; Influence function; Model choice; Poverty; Robust statistics; Stochastic dominance

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034336795     PISSN: 03067734     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1751-5823.2000.tb00331.x     Document Type: Article

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