A piecewise method for estimating the Lorenz curve

DOI10.1016/J.ECONLET.2015.02.008MaRDI QIDQ500489zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors ZuXiang Wang, Russell Smyth

Publication date 5 October 2015

Published in Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2015.02.008

zbMATH Keywords

Lorenz curvegrouped income dataparametric form

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82) Welfare economics (91B15)

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