Distributional dominance with trimmed data

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 291-300

  Cowell, Frank A ^a   Victoria Feser, Maria Pia ^b  

^a LONDON SCHOOL OF ECONOMICS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENEVA   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Distributional dominance; Lorenz curve; Robustness

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746347030     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/073500105000000207     Document Type: Article

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