An index of monotonicity and its estimation: a step beyond econometric applications of the Gini index

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Authors Youri Davydov, Ričardas Zitikis

Publication date 12 July 2019

Published in Metron (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

\(L_p\)-distanceasymptotic distributionconcentration functionconsistencyconvex functionGini indexindex of monotonicitykernel density estimationmonotone functionPietra index

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Monotonic functions, generalizations (26A48) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Nonparametric hypothesis testing (62G10) Asymptotic properties of nonparametric inference (62G20) Reliability and life testing (62N05) Applications of statistics to economics (62P20)

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