The effect of measurement error on the estimated shape of the world distribution of income

Economics Letters

Volumn 100, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 373-376

  Parmeter, Christopher F ^a  

^a VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Bimodality; Deconvolution; Unknown variance

Indexed keywords

EID: 49349105584     PISSN: 01651765     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.econlet.2008.02.036     Document Type: Article

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