Contrasting the Gini and Zenga indices of economic inequality

DOI10.1080/02664763.2012.740627MaRDI QIDQ5128906zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francesca Greselin, Leo Pasquazzi, Ričardas Zitikis

Publication date 26 October 2020

Published in Journal of Applied Statistics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/02664763.2012.740627

zbMATH Keywords

confidence intervalGini indexLorenz curvepoint estimateZenga indexeconomic inequalityZenga curve

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statistics (62-XX)

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