The paper presents an approach to the measurement of economic disparity in several commodities. We introduce a special view on the usual Lorenz curve and extend this view to the multivariate situation: Given a vector of shares of the total endowments in each commodity, the multivariate inverse...

We consider four orthant stochastic orderings between random vectors X and Y that have finitely discrete probability distributions in IRk. For each of the orderings conditions have been developed that are necessary and sufficient for dominance of Y over X. We present an algorithm that checks...

Eine breit gefächerte Einführung in die deskriptive sowie, nach Bereitstellung der notwendigen Begriffe aus der Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie, in einige Verfahren der schliessenden Statistik, nahezu ohne mathematische Beweisführungen. Rezension: Zielgruppe sind hier alle empirischen...