Estimation of the income distribution and detection of subpopulations: an explanatory model

DOI10.1016/J.CSDA.2006.07.004MaRDI QIDQ1019971zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Emmanuel Flachaire, Olivier G. Nunez

Publication date 29 May 2009

Published in Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2006.07.004

zbMATH Keywords

mixture modelsincome distribution

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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