Revisiting a functional form for the Lorenz curve

DOI10.1016/j.econlet.2010.01.038zbMath1203.91229OpenAlexW1980544080MaRDI QIDQ974217

Faustino Prieto, María Sarabia, José María Sarabia

Publication date: 27 May 2010

Published in: Economics Letters (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.econlet.2010.01.038

zbMATH Keywords

mixtureLorenz orderingDonaldson-Weymark-Kakwani and Pietra inequality indices

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

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

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