Small area estimation of the Gini concentration coefficient

DOI10.1016/J.CSDA.2016.01.010zbMath1468.62051OpenAlexW2280553819MaRDI QIDQ1659195

Enrico Fabrizi, Carlo Trivisano

Publication date: 15 August 2018

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

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2016.01.010

zbMATH Keywords

Markov chain Monte Carlorandom effectsvariance componentsincome inequalityhierarchical Bayesbeta regression

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Computational methods for problems pertaining to statistics (62-08) Bayesian inference (62F15) Sampling theory, sample surveys (62D05) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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Uses Software

• BUGS
• laeken

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