Several authors have suggested using the jackknife technique to approximate a standard error for the Gini coefficient. It has also been shown that the Gini measure can be obtained simply from an artificial ordinary least square (OLS) regression based on the data and their ranks. We show that...

We observe that care must be taken when using a regression-based approach to construct a standard error for the Gini coefficient. Copyright 2006 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.

This paper argues for interval, rather than point, estimation when calibrating some variants of the trip distribution "gravity" models. Analytic expressions are derived for the approximate asymptotic covariances of least squares and maximum likelihood estimates of the parameters in the impedance...

In this paper we develop flexible techniques for measuring the speed of output convergence between countries when such convergence may be of an unknown non-linear form. We then calculate these convergence speeds for various countries, in terms of half-lives, from two time-series data-sets. These...

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