Gini Inequality Index: Methods and Applications

ISBN-13: 9780367688356 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 249 str.

Nitis Mukhopadhyay; Partha Pratim SenGupta

Opis

Gini Inequality Index: Methods and Applications features original high-quality peer-reviewed chapters prepared by internationally acclaimed researchers.

Spis treści

1. Introducing Informal Inequality Measures (IIMs) Constructed from U-statistics of Degree Three or Higher in Analyzing Economic Disparity. 2. The Decomposition of the Gini Index Between and Within Groups: A Key Factor in Gender Studies. 3. A Note on the Decomposition of Health Inequality by Population Subgroups in the Case of Ordinal Variables. 4. The Gini index decomposition and the overlapping between population subgroups. 5. Gini’s Mean Difference Based Minimum Risk Point Estimator of Mean. 6. The Gini concentration index for the study of survival. 7. An Axiomatic Analysis of Air Quality Assessment. 8. Sequential Interval and Point Estimation of Gini Index by Controlling Accuracies Relative to the Mean. 9. A Test on Correlation based on Gini's Mean Difference. 10. Multi-group Segregation for Nominal and Ordinal Categorical Data. 11. Exploring Fixed-Accuracy Estimation for Population Gini Inequality Index Under Big Data: A Passage to Practical Distribution-Free Strategies.