Large sample properties of a new measure of income inequality

Publication date: Available online 1 September 2018Source: Statistics & Probability LettersAuthor(s): Xiaoke Zhang, Joseph L. GastwirthAbstractThis paper develops the asymptotic properties of a recently proposed measure of inequality emphasizing the status of the poor relative to the rich. A simulation confirms the asymptotic results are applicable in practice.

Source: Statistics and Probability Letters - September 1, 2018 Category: Statistics Source Type: research