A New Logit-Based Gini Coefficient [PDF]
Entropy, 2019 The Gini coefficient is generally used to measure and summarize inequality over the entire income distribution function (IDF). Unfortunately, it is widely held that the Gini does not detect changes in the tails of the IDF particularly well.
Hang K. Ryu +2 more
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Distribution of nursing workforce in the world using Gini coefficient [PDF]
BMC Nursing, 2023 Introduction Unequal Access to human resources for health, reduces access to healthcare services, worsens the quality of services and reduces health outcomes.
Erfan Kharazmi +2 more
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Estimation of Gini Index within Pre-Specified Error Bound [PDF]
Econometrics, 2016 Gini index is a widely used measure of economic inequality. This article develops a theory and methodology for constructing a confidence interval for Gini index with a specified confidence coefficient and a specified width without assuming any specific ...
Bhargab Chattopadhyay +1 more
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Estimation of upper and lower bounds of Gini coefficient by fuzzy data [PDF]
Data in Brief, 2020 The data presented in this paper are used to examine the uncertainty in macroeconomic variables and their impact on the Gini coefficient. Annual data for the period 2017 - 1996 are taken from the Bank of Iran website https://www.cbi.ir.
Reza Ashraf Ganjoei +3 more
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Estimation of the Gini coefficient based on two quantiles. [PDF]
PLoS ONEBased on the Palma proposition and the Lorenz fitting curve, this paper estimates the sample Gini coefficient using the income share of the top 10% and bottom 40% of the population.
Pingsheng Dai, Sitong Shen
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Income Inequality by Gini-Coefficient on Suicide Death in Iran: A Review of National Data [PDF]
Iranian Journal of Public Health, 2019 Background: Research in source of inequality and enhance of knowledge can be reducing the inequalities in the coming decades. Therefore, we aimed to ascertain effects of income inequality measured by Gini-coefficient to death from suicide in Iran ...
Yousef VEISANI +3 more
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The Gini coefficient as a useful measure of malaria inequality among populations [PDF]
Malaria Journal, 2020 Background Understanding inequality in infectious disease burden requires clear and unbiased indicators. The Gini coefficient, conventionally used as a macroeconomic descriptor of inequality, is potentially useful to quantify epidemiological ...
Jonathan Abeles, David J. Conway
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On the Relationship Between the Gini Coefficient and Skewness [PDF]
Ecology and EvolutionSkewness, a measure of the asymmetry of a distribution, is frequently employed to reflect a biologically important property. Another statistic, the Gini coefficient (GC), originally used to measure economic inequality, has been validated in measuring the
Meng Lian +4 more
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Evaluation of the Gini Coefficient in Spatial Scan Statistics for Detecting Irregularly Shaped Clusters. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 Spatial scan statistics with circular or elliptic scanning windows are commonly used for cluster detection in various applications, such as the identification of geographical disease clusters from epidemiological data.
Jiyu Kim, Inkyung Jung
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Employing the Gini coefficient to measure participation inequality in treatment-focused Digital Health Social Networks [PDF]
Netw Model Anal Health Inform Bioinform, 2016 Digital Health Social Networks (DHSNs) are common; however, there are few metrics that can be used to identify participation inequality. The objective of this study was to investigate whether the Gini coefficient, an economic measure of statistical ...
AL Graham +46 more
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