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Practical Modified Gini Index. ACES Working Papers, 2012 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2012
The Gini index is the most common method for estimating the level of income inequality in countries. In this paper we suggest a simple modification that takes into account the moderating effect of in-kind government benefits.
Malul, Miki   +2 more
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Adverse outcomes among pregnant women with COVID‐19 according to hospitalization status: A prospective individual participant data meta‐analysis in Europe and North America

open access: yesInternational Journal of Gynecology &Obstetrics, EarlyView.
Abstract Background Understanding the varied impact of COVID‐19 severity on pregnancy outcomes is crucial for informed clinical management and targeted interventions. Objective To evaluate the impact of COVID‐19 on pregnancy outcomes, distinguishing between pregnant women managed in primary care and those requiring hospitalization.
Odette de Bruin   +73 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sampling Distribution of the Gini Index from a Skew Normal [PDF]

open access: yes
The Gini concentration ratio has been extensively used in the study of "inequality" of distributions. According to Chakrabarthy (1982), "the Lorenz curve and the Gini index have remained the most popular and powerful tool in the analyses of size ...
Corrado Crocetta, Nicola Loperfido
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Unemployment spells and income distribution dynamics [PDF]

open access: yes, 1995
In the U.S., during the 1948-86 period, an approximation to the Gini Index based on the quintiles and on the top 5% of the income distribution yielded a value of 0.351.
Castañeda, Ana   +2 more
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Chronic Low‐Dose Unsymmetrical Dimethylhydrazine Exposure in Rats: Multiorgan Mechanisms and Biomarker Identification

open access: yesJournal of Applied Toxicology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Unsymmetrical dimethylhydrazine (UDMH), a highly toxic rocket propellant with known multiorgan effects, requires urgent characterization of its chronic low‐dose toxicity. Using an integrated approach including exploratory transcriptomics (n = 3/group) and metabolomic (n = 4/group) approaches in male Sprague–Dawley rats exposed to high‐dose ...
Fuzhou Liu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Comparison of the Gini and Zenga Indexes using Some Theoretical Income Distributions Abstract

open access: yesOperations Research and Decisions, 2013
The most common measure of inequality used in scientific research is the Gini index. In 2007, Zenga proposed a new index of inequality that has all the appropriate properties of an measure of equality.
Katarzyna Ostasiewicz, Edyta Mazurek
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REVIEW OF INEQUALITY METRICS WITH APPLICATION IN INCOME INEQUALITY IN LOUISIANA [PDF]

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Economic data sets usually are, by their nature, very large and therefore researchers naturally want to analyze the distribution of the data set and make statistical inference about various parameters of interest, such as means, medians, variances, etc ...
Mihaela Paun
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