Statistical inference for the Lorenz curve and Gini coefficient

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Authors: Jiading Chen, Qizhi Chen 

Publication date: 1 June 2012

Published in: Acta Mathematicae Applicatae Sinica (Search for Journal in Brave)

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zbMATH Keywords

strong consistencyconfidence intervalsestimation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Asymptotic properties of parametric estimators (62F12) Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Asymptotic distribution theory in statistics (62E20) Parametric tolerance and confidence regions (62F25) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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