Eingrenzung der Lorenzkurve und des Gini-Koeffizienten aus klassierten Daten bei verschiedenen Annahmen über den Informationsstand / Grouping Bounds for the Lorenz Curve and the Gini Index. Under Alternative Assumptions About the Level of Information

Gasnier Sylvie and Jöhnk Max-Detlev
Additional contact information
Gasnier Sylvie: Institut für quantitative Wirtschaftsforschung, Universität Hannover, Wunstorfer Str. 14, D-30453 Hannover
Jöhnk Max-Detlev: Institut für quantitative Wirtschaftsforschung, Universität Hannover, Wunstorfer Str. 14, D-30453 Hannover

Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik), 1994, vol. 213, issue 6, 724-746

Abstract: If only grouped data are given - for example from income surveys - it is impossible to determine the Lorenz curve and the exact value of the Gini index. J. L. Gastwirth has given bounds for both of them if class means are known. This paper deals with the case of unknown class means. We consider the cases of known as well as unknown overall means. Hulls for the possible Lorenz curves and upper and lower bounds for the Gini index are derived.

Date: 1994
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://doi.org/10.1515/jbnst-1994-0608 (text/html)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:jns:jbstat:v:213:y:1994:i:6:p:724-746

DOI: 10.1515/jbnst-1994-0608

Access Statistics for this article

Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik) is currently edited by Peter Winker

More articles in Journal of Economics and Statistics (Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik) from De Gruyter
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Peter Golla ().