This is one of my pet little bugbears, the statistics that people use to measure poverty and inequality in the US. For the numbers that people tend to throw around are extraordinarily misleading. They ...

With reformers relentlessly demanding that schools produce measurable outcomes, it’s curious that the Gini Index is rarely mentioned. I say that because what Italian statistician Corrado Gini wrote in ...

The most widely used measure for studying social, economic, and health inequality is the Gini index/ratio. Whereas other measures of inequality possess certain useful characteristics, such as the ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper presents the uniformly minimum variance unbiased estimator and a strongly consistent, asymptotically normal, unbiased estimator of ...

Some records you don’t want to break. In 2016, Seattle hit an all-time high for a commonly used measure of income inequality, known as the Gini index. And if you’re worried about Seattle turning into ...

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