Bayesian estimation of the GINI index for the PID

DOI10.1007/BF02562665zbMath0764.62099MaRDI QIDQ1209927

Nand Kishore Singh, Haren Choudhuri, Arup Ganguly, Samir K. Bhattacharya

Publication date: 16 May 1993

Published in: Test (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

Taylor seriesBayes estimatorsGini indexpoverty linegrouped income datasquared-error losspoverty indexcensored income datamean incomePareto income distributionproduct income statistictruncated Erlang prior density

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Bayesian inference (62F15) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

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