On a generalisation of the Gini coefficient

DOI10.1016/0165-4896(95)00787-3MaRDI QIDQ1377490zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Maurice Salles, Charles Richard Barrett

Publication date 26 January 1998

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

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/0165-4896(95)00787-3

zbMATH Keywords

poverty measuresGini coefficientinequality measuresindependence axiom

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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