Pareto Distributions Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Barry C Arnold

Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Year: 2015
Tongue: English
Leaves: 435
Series: Chapman & Hall/CRC Monographs on Statistics & Applied Probability
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

A considerable number of papers on Pareto distributions and related topics have appeared since the first edition of this hadbook. This book updates the popular first edition by interleafing developments inequality indices, parametric families of Lorenz curves, Pareto processes, hidden truncation, and more.

✦ Table of Contents

Content: Front Cover; Dedication; Contents; List of Figures; List of Tables; Preface to the First Edition; Preface to the Second Edition; Chapter 1 --
Historical sketch with emphasis on income modeling; Chapter 2 --
Models for income distributions; Chapter 3 --
Pareto and related heavy-tailed distributions; Chapter 4 --
Measures of inequality; Chapter 5 --
Inference for Pareto distributions; Chapter 6 --
Multivariate Pareto distributions; Appendix A --
Historical income data sources; Appendix B --
Two representative data sets; Appendix C --
A quarterly household income data set; References; Back Cover.
Abstract: A considerable number of papers on Pareto distributions and related topics have appeared since the first edition of this hadbook. This book updates the popular first edition by interleafing developments inequality indices, parametric families of Lorenz curves, Pareto processes, hidden truncation, and more

✦ Subjects

Математика;Теория вероятностей и математическая статистика;Теория вероятностей;

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