Similarity of Pratt's measure of class concentration to the Gini index

Mark P. Carpenter

Journal of the American Society for Information Science, 1979, vol. 30, issue 2, 108-110

Abstract: Pratt's measure of concentration is shown to be nearly identical to an already established measure of concentration, the Gini index. Pratt's measure is shown to be an improvement over the Gini index.

Date: 1979
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