Similarity, dissimilarity and exceptionality: generalizing Gini's transvariation to measure ``differentness in many distributions

DOI10.1007/s40300-017-0112-4zbMath1384.60047OpenAlexW2737132997MaRDI QIDQ1701046

Peng Zhang

Publication date: 22 February 2018

Published in: Metron (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.1007/s40300-017-0112-4

zbMATH Keywords

dissimilarityexceptionalityrelative transvariation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Probability distributions: general theory (60E05) History of statistics (62-03) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82)

Uses Software

• reldist

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