Nonparametric inference for Zenga's measure of income inequality

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Authors Emad-Eldin A. A. Aly, Marilou O. Hervas

Publication date 20 March 2000

Published in Metron (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Brownian bridgeempirical distributionlimiting distributionLorentz curvequantile functions

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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