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 ...
van Mierlo T, Hyatt D, Ching AT.
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Short-term Gini coefficient estimation using nonlinear autoregressive multilayer perceptron model [PDF]
HeliyonPoverty, an intricate global challenge influenced by economic, political, and social elements, is characterized by a deficiency in crucial resources, necessitating collective efforts towards its mitigation as embodied in the United Nations' Sustainable ...
Megat Syahirul Amin Megat Ali +7 more
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Measuring Resource Inequality: The Gini Coefficient
Numeracy, 2009 This paper stems from work done by the authors at the Mathematics for Social Justice Workshop held in June of 2007 at Middlebury College. We provide a description of the Gini coefficient and some discussion of how it can be used to promote quantitative ...
Michael T. Catalano +2 more
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Acta Scientiarum: Technology, 2023 The Gini coefficient emerged more than a hundred years ago, but it is still the well-known and most used measure for assessing the degree of inequality in a distribution.
Carla Carla Maria Lopes da Silva Afonso dos Santos +1 more
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Partial Gini Coefficient for Uncertain Random Variables with Application to Portfolio Selection
Mathematics, 2023 The partial Gini coefficient measures the strength of dispersion for uncertain random variables, while controlling for the effects of all random variables.
Lifeng Wang +3 more
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Gini coefficients for measuring the distribution of sexually transmitted infections among individuals with different levels of sexual activity [PDF]
PeerJ, 2020 Objectives Gini coefficients have been used to describe the distribution of Chlamydia trachomatis (CT) infections among individuals with different levels of sexual activity. The objectives of this study were to investigate Gini coefficients for different
Sandro Gsteiger +4 more
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Group averaging and the Gini deviation
RUDN Journal of Economics, 2021 It is known that partitioning a society into groups with subsequent averaging in each group decreases the Gini coefficient. The resulting Lorenz function is piecewise linear.
Oleg I. Pavlov, Olga Yu. Pavlova
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Optimizing the maximum reported cluster size in the spatial scan statistic for ordinal data. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2017 The spatial scan statistic is an important tool for spatial cluster detection. There have been numerous studies on scanning window shapes. However, little research has been done on the maximum scanning window size or maximum reported cluster size ...
Sehwi Kim, Inkyung Jung
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Economic Journal of Emerging Markets, 2009 This study explores the trend of regional disparity, specialisation, and concentration of manufacturing industry employment in Indonesia by province and sub-sector. The focus of this study is large and Medium (L-M) firm of manufacture industry.This study
Suharto Suharto
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