Gini's mean difference: a superior measure of variability for non-normal distributions

zbMATH Open1416.60031MaRDI QIDQ2002891FDOQ2002891

Authors: Shlomo Yitzhaki 

Publication date: 12 July 2019

Published in: Metron (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

correlationANOVAvarianceGini mean difference

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) Analysis of variance and covariance (ANOVA) (62J10)

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