An almost unbiased estimator of the coefficient of variation

Economics Letters

Volumn 70, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 15-19

  Breunig, Robert ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

C13; Coefficient of variation; D31; Inequality measurement; Small sample bias correction

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035545489     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-1765(00)00351-7     Document Type: Article

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