This paper employs the axiomatic approach underpinning the literature on income inequality measurement to analyze measures of dispersion in interval data. We find that some widely employed measures fail to properly measure dispersion when data are not of the ratio type. We go on to prove that, under
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Measuring inequality with asset indicators
β Scribed by David J. McKenzie
- Publisher
- Springer
- Year
- 2005
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 357 KB
- Volume
- 18
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0933-1433
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