The asymptotic distribution of the S-Gini index

Australian and New Zealand Journal of Statistics

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 439-446

  Zitikis, Ričardas ^a   Gastwirth, Joseph L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

^b GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Asymptotic normality; Consistency; Economic inequality; Exponential distribution; Gini index; Income distribution; L statistic; Pareto distribution; S Gini index

Indexed keywords

EID: 0036889796     PISSN: 13691473     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-842X.00245     Document Type: Article

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