Measuring statistical evenness: A panoramic overview

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications

Volumn 391, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 1323-1353

  Eliazar, Iddo I ^a   Sokolov, Igor M ^b  

^a HOLON INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Amato's index; Atkinson's indices; Evenness gauges; Gini's index; Hirschman's index; Hoover's "Robin Hood" index; Lorenz curve; Lorenzian fractality; Pareto's 2080 rule; Pareto's probability law; Pietra's index; Power laws; Rank distributions; R nyi's entropies; R nyi's indices; Statistical heterogeneity; The curvature index; Theil's index

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; GAGES; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

AMATO'S INDICES; ATKINSON'S INDICES; CURVATURE INDICES; EVENNESS GAUGES; GINI'S INDICES; HIRSCHMAN'S INDICES; LORENZ CURVES; LORENZIAN FRACTALITY; PARETO'S 2080 RULES; PARETO'S PROBABILITY LAWS; PIETRA'S INDICES; POWER-LAW; RANK DISTRIBUTIONS; ROBIN HOOD; STATISTICAL HETEROGENEITIES; THEIL'S INDICES;

STATISTICAL PHYSICS;

EID: 84655169910     PISSN: 03784371     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2011.09.007     Document Type: Review

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