… the Gini index, and formulations of the Gini index for discrete distributions are referred to as
empirical versions or estimators of the true Gini index. … Our results reveal that extremely large …

… While in some cases, different distributions resulting in the same Gini coefficient may be a …
We hope that our work encourages statistics bureaus to publish more detailed inequality data …

… the different observations on the Bonferroni and Gini indices. The result demonstrates once
for all that the former is more sensitive to the lowest incomes in the distribution than the latter. …

… Section 7 summarizes the main results of the article and puts … result applies to standard
bootstrap variance estimation. … for estimating the Theil index and the Gini coefficient for small …

… that provides information on lifespan variation. Originally proposed by economists to … variation
in ages at death. We focus on the complement of the Gini coefficient, Drewnowski’s index, …

… may depend on a given variance estimator of the Gini index. For this purpose, we consider
Ogwang’s jackknife variance estimator because the results from Section 3 indicate that the …

… , in Section 3, the biases of different versions of the Gini index. … Our results reveal that
extremely large biases may appear, … for the variance estimation of the Gini index. Ogwang (2000) …

… This benchmark evaluates the horizontal inequality of each quantile using the Gini index,
then averages the results weighting each \(GGini_j\) by the income share of quantile j. The …

… The main results are that the Gini coefficient works for gauging … the Gini coefficient gauges
differences in gender proportions while this sample size should be too small for several other …

… Results are compared to the classic Gini index, revealing important differences, especially
referring to the foreign population that in this period intensively grew and presented a strong …