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 …

This chapter discusses the formal and informal techniques that are commonly used to give
quantitative answers in the field of distributional analysis. To this end, it covers subjects …

Objectives The law of crime concentration states that half of the cumulative crime in a city will
occur within approximately 4% of the city's geography. The law is demonstrated by counting …

Abstract Background/Objective Available evidence on infant body composition is limited.
This study aimed to investigate factors associated with body composition at 6 and 24 …

The Gini coefficient is a popular concentration measure often used in the analysis of
economic inequality. Estimates of this index for small regions may be useful to properly …

Sampling consists of selecting a subset of units or elements from a finite population for the
purpose of extrapolating the results obtained on this subset to the entire population …

Small area estimation is receiving considerable attention due to the high demand for small
area statistics. Small area estimators of means and totals have been widely studied in the …

The Gini index is probably the most commonly used indicator to measure inequality. For
continuous distributions, the Gini index can be computed using several equivalent …