Estimation of gini index within pre-specified error bound

Econometrics

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 2016, Pages

  Chattopadhyay, Bhargab ^a   De, Shyamal Krishna ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT DALLAS   (United States)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

Distribution free method; Fixed width confidence interval; Gini index; Sample size planning; U statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 85026917346     PISSN: None     EISSN: 22251146     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/econometrics4030030     Document Type: Article

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