[图书][B] Measuring inequality

FA Cowell - 2011 - books.google.com
What do we mean by inequality comparisons? If the rich just get richer and the poor get
poorer, the answer might seem easy. But what if the income distribution changes in a …

Structural equation models

JC Westland - Stud. Syst. Decis. Control, 2015 - Springer
This book evolved from a series of Ph. D. seminars presented to students both at Tsinghua
University in Beijing and at the University of Illinois—Chicago. My lectures, in turn, grew out …

[图书][B] Actuarial theory for dependent risks: measures, orders and models

M Denuit, J Dhaene, M Goovaerts, R Kaas - 2006 - books.google.com
The increasing complexity of insurance and reinsurance products has seen a growing
interest amongst actuaries in the modelling of dependent risks. For efficient risk …

A review of decomposition of income inequality

A Heshmati - Available at SSRN 571703, 2004 - papers.ssrn.com
This paper is a review of recent developments of parametric and non-parametric
approaches to decompose inequality by subgroups, income sources, causal factors and …

[PDF][PDF] Gini's mean difference: A superior measure of variability for non-normal distributions

S Yitzhaki - Metron, 2003 - dss.uniroma1.it
Of all measures of variability, the variance is by far the most popular. This paper argues that
Gini's Mean Difference (GMD), an alternative index of variability, shares many properties …

Measuring the spatial dimension of regional inequality: An approach based on the Gini correlation measure

D Panzera, P Postiglione - Social Indicators Research, 2020 - Springer
Traditional inequality measures fail to capture the geographical distribution of income. The
failure to consider such distribution implies that, holding income constant, different spatial …

Using analysis of Gini (ANOGI) for detecting whether two subsamples represent the same universe: The German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP) experience

JR Frick, J Goebel, E Schechtman… - Sociological …, 2006 - journals.sagepub.com
A wildly discussed shortcoming of panel surveys is a potential bias arising from selective
attrition. Based on data of the German Socio-Economic Panel Study (SOEP), the authors …

Machine Learning–Based Differential Network Analysis: A Study of Stress-Responsive Transcriptomes in Arabidopsis

C Ma, M Xin, KA Feldmann, X Wang - The Plant Cell, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Machine learning (ML) is an intelligent data mining technique that builds a
prediction model based on the learning of prior knowledge to recognize patterns in large …

Occupational segregation by race in South Africa after apartheid

C Gradín - Review of Development Economics, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
This paper investigates progress in reducing the high level of racial stratification of
occupations after apartheid in South Africa. Empirical analysis, using census microdata and …

A contribution to multivariate L-moments: L-comoment matrices

R Serfling, P Xiao - Journal of Multivariate Analysis, 2007 - Elsevier
Multivariate statistical analysis relies heavily on moment assumptions of second order and
higher. With increasing interest in heavy-tailed distributions, however, it is desirable to …