More than a century ago, Corrado Gini proposed his well‐known concentration index for
measuring the degree of inequality in the distribution of income and wealth. His index is still …

Highly recommended by the Journal of Official Statistics, The American Statistician, and
other journals, Applied Survey Data Analysis, Second Edition provides an up-to-date …

Objectives The crime and place literature lacks a standard methodology for measuring and
reporting crime concentration. We suggest that crime concentration be reported with the …

In this paper, we consider two well-known methods for analysis of the Gini index, which are
U-statistics and linearization for some income distributions. In addition, we evaluate two …

Lifetime data is often right-censored. Recent literature on the Gini index estimation with
censored data focuses on independent censoring. However, the censoring mechanism is …

Resampling approaches were the first techniques employed to compute a variance for the
Gini coefficient; however, many authors have shown that an analysis of the Gini coefficient …

Estimates of poverty and inequality are often based on application of a single equivalence
scale, despite the fact that a large number of different equivalence scales can be found in …

Among many income distributions, the Burr XII distribution has gathered special attention on
fitting income data in economic and applied statistics. Recently, several attempts have been …