A bottom poor sensitive Gini coefficient and maximum entropy estimation of income distributions

A bottom poor sensitive Gini coefficient (pgini) is defined by replacing income observations with their reciprocal values in the Gini coefficient. The underlying true income share function can be derived approximately using the maximum entropy method given the pgini coefficient.

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Year of publication:	2013
Authors:	Ryu, Hang Keun
Published in:	Economics Letters. - Elsevier, ISSN 0165-1765. - Vol. 118.2013, 2, p. 370-374
Publisher:	Elsevier
Subject:	Gini coefficient \| Bonferroni index \| Wolfson polarization index \| Maximum entropy method

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Type of publication:	Article
Classification:	D31 - Personal Income, Wealth and Their Distributions ; D63 - Equity, Justice, Inequality, and Other Normative Criteria and Measurement
Source:	RePEc - Research Papers in Economics

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