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Analyzing Global Dentist Distribution Using the Gini Coefficient [PDF]

Journal of Health Sciences and Surveillance System
Background: Each country’s health system is tasked with providing services to ensure the health of its population. Dental services are among these essential services. However, dental service utilization is unevenly distributed worldwide.
Erfan Kharazmi, Shima Bordbar, Aida Javanmardi, Najmeh Bordbar   +3 more
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A Gini Coefficient-Based Impartial and Open Dispatching Model

Energies, 2020
According to the existing widely applied impartial and open dispatching models, operation fairness was mainly emphasized, which severely restricted the optimization space of the economy of the overall system operation and affected the economic benefits ...
Liang Sun, Na Zhang, Ning Li, Zhuo-ran Song, Wei-dong Li   +4 more
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A Note on the asymptotic equivalence of jackknife and linearization variance estimation for the Gini Coefficient

, 2008
The Gini coefficient has proved valuable as a measure of income inequality. In cross-sectional studies of the Gini coefficient, information about the accuracy of its estimate is crucial.
Berger, Yves G.
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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, Tanya L. Leise, Thomas J. Pfaff   +2 more
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Generalized Gini coefficient: an alternative approach

Economic Analysis, 2019
The purpose of this note is to propose an alternative and intuitively simpler derivation of the generalized Gini coefficient, and to show how a number of different applications follow directly from this alternative derivation. In Sector 1 we present the
Branko Milanović
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Bounds for the r-Weighted Gini Mean Difference of an Empirical Distribution [PDF]

, 2007
Various bounds for the r−weighted Gini mean difference of an empirical distribution are ...
Cerone, Pietro, Dragomir, Sever S
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The Determinants of Income Inequality in Bangka Belitung Province

Модернизация, инновация, развитие, 2021
Purpose: this research study focused on analyzing the conditions of income distribution and the determinants of the low Gini coefficient, namely the sectors that have the highest contribution, including the industrial, agricultural and trade sectors and ...
R. Nesha, R. Bernadette, A. Yulianita
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An Estimation of Gini Coefficient in Iran [PDF]

فصلنامه پژوهش‌های اقتصادی ایران, 2008
The Gini coefficient is a popular and a widely used index for measuring inequality. But it does not express explicitly a parameter or a value judgment to reflect the opinion of authorities or researches.
Mohsen Jalali
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Quantifying distribution in carbon uptake and environmental measurements with the Gini coefficient

Letters in Biomathematics, 2016
The Gini coefficient is a measure used in economics to evaluate the equitability of the distribution of a resource across a population. This project applied the Gini coefficient as a classification method for a decade-long data set consisting of ...
Mohamed N. Safi, John M. Zobitz
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Assessment of the health of Americans: the average health-related quality of life and its inequality across individuals and groups

Population Health Metrics, 2005
Background The assessment of population health has traditionally relied on the population's average health measured by mortality related indicators. Researchers have increasingly recognized the importance of including information on health inequality and
Asada Yukiko
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