Haridas, Haritha N.; Nair, N. Unnikrishnan; Nair, K.R. … - In: Journal of Income Distribution 17 (2008) 2, pp. 37-51
In the present article we propose the generalised lambda distribution as a model for income data. The quantile measures of location, dispersion, skewness, and kurtosis of the distribution are matched against the corresponding measures derived from the sample to estimate the parameters of the...