Measuring income inequality: a robust semi-parametric approach

DOI10.1016/J.PHYSA.2020.125359MaRDI QIDQ2146282zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Muhammad Aslam Mohd Safari, Nurulkamal Masseran, Kamarulzaman Ibrahim, Saiful Izzuan Hussain

Publication date 16 June 2022

Published in Physica A (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.physa.2020.125359

zbMATH Keywords

Pareto distributionincome distributioninequalitysemi-parametric modelinverse-Pareto distributionsurvey samples

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistical mechanics, structure of matter (82-XX)

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• From Mean and Median Income to the Most Adequate Way of Taking Inequality into Account
• Robust methods for personal‐income distribution models

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• plfit

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