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 ...

We often assume that residents of countries with high average incomes lead better lives. But skewed distribution of income may produce its own complexities. A situation that could be described as a ...

This paper is concerned with the problem of ranking Lorenz curves in situations where the Lorenz curves intersect and no unambiguous ranking can be attained without introducing weaker ranking criteria ...