Income inequality versus utility inequality

DOI10.1080/03610926.2015.1069348MaRDI QIDQ4976241zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Hang Keun Ryu, D. J. Slottje

Publication date 27 July 2017

Published in Communications in Statistics: Theory and Methods (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/03610926.2015.1069348

zbMATH Keywords

Gini coefficientmaximum entropy methodutility Gini coefficientutility Lorenz curveutility polarization index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Point estimation (62F10) Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Applications of statistics to social sciences (62P25) Measures of information, entropy (94A17)

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Cites work

• A bottom poor sensitive Gini coefficient and maximum entropy estimation of income distributions
• Maximum entropy estimation of density and regression functions
• On Inequality Comparisons

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