Inequality orderings, normalized stochastic dominance, and statistical inference

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2000, Pages 479-488

  Zheng, Buhong ^a   Formby, John P ^b   Smith, W James ^a   Chow, Victor K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA   (United States)

^c WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Higher degrees of stochastic dominance; Inequality measurement; Stratified sample; U.S. family inequality

Indexed keywords

EID: 0034395064     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: 15372707     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/07350015.2000.10524886     Document Type: Article

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