Estimating and combining national income distributions using limited data

Journal of Business and Economic Statistics

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 97-109

  Chotikapanich, Duangkamon ^a   Griffiths, William E ^b   Prasada Rao, D S ^c  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

Beta 2 distribution; Gini coefficient

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846034735     PISSN: 07350015     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1198/073500106000000224     Document Type: Article

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