Bayesian estimation for the Pareto income distribution

DOI10.1007/BF02929874zbMath0945.62120OpenAlexW1988527539MaRDI QIDQ1297651

Nand Kishore Singh, Anoop Chaturvedi, Samir K. Bhattacharya

Publication date: 3 October 2000

Published in: Statistical Papers (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/bf02929874

zbMATH Keywords

likelihood functionBayes estimatorsGini indexpoverty linesquared error loss functionBayesian posterior densityPareto income distributiondoubly truncated gamma prior distributionhyperparameter assessment

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Bayesian inference (62F15) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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