Weak approximations for empirical lorenz curves and their goldie inverses of stationary observations

Advances in Applied Probability

Volumn 31, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 698-719

  Csörgõ, Miklös ^a,b   Yu, Hao ^a,b  

^a CARLETON UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Empirical concentration process; Empirical lorenz process; Empirical process; Inverse lorenz curve; Lorenz curve; Quantile process; Weighted metric; station

Indexed keywords

EID: 17744367430     PISSN: 00018678     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S000186780000937X     Document Type: Article

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