1. Introduction -- 2. Manufacturing 1 : modelling and improving the work process in manufacturing industry -- 3. Manufacturing 2 : using statistics to improve the production process -- 4. Financial services 1 : pensions and investments -- 5. Financial services 2 : mortgages -- 6. Summary,...

This article reveals a discontinuity in the mapping from a Lorenz curve to the associated cumulative distribution function. The problem is of a mathematical nature-based on an analysis of the transformation between the distribution function of a bound random variable and its Lorenz curve. It...