The harmonic Gini coefficient and affluence indexes
โ Scribed by Pranab Kumar Sen
- Publisher
- Elsevier Science
- Year
- 1988
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 725 KB
- Volume
- 16
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0165-4896
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We are thankful to De-Min Wu and two anonymous referees for helpful comments and suggestions. A. G. Malliaris at Loyola University of Chicago kindly provided the data for this research. Of course, we are responsible for any remaining errors.
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