On Egghe's version of continuous concentration theory

Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology

Volumn 57, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1406-1411

  Burrell, Quentin L ^a  

^a Isle of Man International Business School   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CURVE FITTING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARETO PRINCIPLE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EGGHE'S VERSION; GINI COEFFICIENTS; LORENZ CONCENTRATION THEORY; THEIL COEFFICIENTS;

THEOREM PROVING;

EID: 33746917515     PISSN: 15322882     EISSN: 15322890     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/asi.20402     Document Type: Article

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