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"Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who in this land is fairest of all?" : distributional sensitivity in the measurement of socioeconomic inequality of health

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The bias of the Gini coefficient due to grouping

Van Ourti, Tom; Clarke, Philip M. - 2008

We propose a first order bias correction term for the Gini index to reduce the bias due to grouping. The first order correction term is obtained from studying the estimator of the Gini index within a measurement error framework. In addition, it reveals an intuitive formula for the remaining...

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