Estimation of the income distribution and detection of subpopulations: an explanatory model

DOI10.1016/j.csda.2006.07.004zbMath1161.62449OpenAlexW2048898646MaRDI QIDQ1019971

Emmanuel Flachaire, Olivier G. Nunez

Publication date: 29 May 2009

Published in: Computational Statistics and Data Analysis (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.csda.2006.07.004

zbMATH Keywords

income distributionmixture models

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Nonparametric estimation (62G05) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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