Assessing Inequality

Assessing Inequality
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Publisher : SAGE Publications
Total Pages : 161
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ISBN-10 : 9781483342634
ISBN-13 : 1483342638
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Book Synopsis Assessing Inequality by : Lingxin Hao

Download or read book Assessing Inequality written by Lingxin Hao and published by SAGE Publications. This book was released on 2010-05-26 with total page 161 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Providing basic foundations for measuring inequality from the perspective of distributional properties This monograpg reviews a set of widely used summary inequality measures, and the lesser known relative distribution method provides the basic rationale behind each measure and discusses their interconnections. It also introduces model-based decomposition of inequality over time using quantile regression. This approach enables researchers to estimate two different contributions to changes in inequality between two time points. Key Features Clear statistical explanations provide fundamental statistical basis for understanding the new modeling framework Straightforward empirical examples reinforce statistical knowledge and ready-to-use procedures Multiple approaches to assessing inequality are introduced by starting with the basic distributional property and providing connections among approaches This supplementary text is appropriate for any graduate-level, intermediate, or advanced statistics course across the social and behavioral sciences, as well as individual researchers.


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