On Thon's axiomatization of the Gini index

DOI10.1016/0165-4896(86)90025-9MaRDI QIDQ1069843zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Alain Trannoy

Publication date 1986

Published in Mathematical Social Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-4896(86)90025-9

zbMATH Keywords

axiomatizationequidistanceGini index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

Review text

Recently, \textit{D. Thon} [ibid. 2, 131-143 (1982; Zbl 0479.90033)] has provided an interesting axiomatization of the Gini index. First, we give a simple proof of this main result with a slight strengthening of one of Thon's axioms. Then we comment on Thon's most important axiom, the equidistance one.

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