The Estimation and Interpolation of Inequality Measures

DOI10.2307/2297275zbMath0479.90034OpenAlexW2075544936MaRDI QIDQ3938808

Frank A. Cowell, Fatemeh Mehta

Publication date: 1982

Published in: The Review of Economic Studies (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL: https://doi.org/10.2307/2297275

zbMATH Keywords

grouped datacomputational procedurecomputation of estimatesestimates of inequality measuressplit-histogram technique of interpolation

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Applications of statistics to economics (62P20) Statistical methods; economic indices and measures (91B82) Probabilistic methods, stochastic differential equations (65C99)

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