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Indexing Concentrations of Heavy Metals

open access: yesInternational Journal of Mining Science
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On the Interpretation of a Concentration Index of Inequality

Health Economics (United Kingdom), 2004
AbstractThis paper aims to add a more intuitive understanding to the concept of a concentration index for measuring relative inequality with an application of health‐related measures by income. A new redistribution interpretation and an existing redistribution interpretation of the Gini are presented and applied to the concentration index.
Eddy K.A. Van Doorslaer, Xander Koolman
exaly   +5 more sources

Correcting the Concentration Index: A Reply to Wagstaff

Journal of Health Economics, 2009
Abstract In this note, I reply to Adam Wagstaff's criticism of my corrected version of the Concentration Index for bounded health variables. I focus on three issues: (1) Wagstaff's suggestions with regard to the scale invariance property; (2) his distinction of relative and absolute inequality; and (3) a comparison of Wagstaff's index W with my index
Guido Erreygers
exaly   +3 more sources

Equity of Health Workforce Distribution in Thailand: An Implication of Concentration Index [PDF]

open access: yesRisk Management and Healthcare Policy, 2019
Nisachol Cetthakrikul   +2 more
exaly   +2 more sources

The Gini Concentration Index for the Study of Survival

2021
This chapter examines some developments that have occurred mostly over the past 20 years in the use of the Gini concentration index to study survival distributions. Most research on the Gini index estimation has focused on completely observed data. The Stata package Giniinc allows one to estimate the Gini concentration index under several conditions ...
Marco Bonetti   +2 more
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