Jackknife empirical likelihood-based inferences for Lorenz curve with kernel smoothing

Shan Luo and Gengsheng Qin

Communications in Statistics - Theory and Methods, 2019, vol. 48, issue 3, 559-582

Abstract: The Lorenz curve describes the wealth proportion for an income-ordered population. In this paper, we introduce a kernel smoothing estimator for the Lorenz curve and propose a smoothed jackknife empirical likelihood method for constructing confidence intervals of Lorenz ordinates. Extensive simulation studies are conducted to evaluate finite sample performances of the proposed methods. A real dataset of Georgia professor’s income is used to illustrate the proposed methods.

Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1080/03610926.2017.1417426

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