mean and volatility that varies. Although the fitting of heavy tail distributions has become easier due to computational … theoretical distributions. The selection of the appropriate theoretical distribution is not trivial. Therefore, this paper … provides methods for the ordering and comparison of continuous distributions by making a threefold contribution. Firstly, it …

-specific distributions. The estimated results are used to study the trends in national inequality, and to discuss the empirical findings in …There are two main types of data sources of income distributions in China: household survey data and grouped data … investigation of the change of inequality over longer, continuous periods of time, and the identification of patterns of inequality …

This paper examines the nature and extent of global and regional income distribution and inequality using the most … methodology used is a recently developed technique to fit flexible income distributions to limited aggregated data. Empirical … results show a very high degree of global inequality, but with some evidence of inequality decreasing between the two years. …

distribution of a function of random variables, and choosing between two or more distributions. To illustrate the procedures we … ; deductive theory ; probability distributions ; lognormal distribution ; Pareto distribution ; power-function distribution … ; rectangular distribution ; exponential distribution ; normal distribution ; pooling ; matching ; multilevel modeling ; inequality …