Pareto distribution

BC Arnold - Wiley StatsRef: Statistics Reference Online, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Pareto distributions and related generalizations have historically been viewed as being
suitable for modelling income and wealth distributions. Following a brief review of the history …

Wealth inequality: A survey

FA Cowell, P Kerm - A Collection of Reviews on Savings and …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The distribution of wealth lies at the heart of the broad research field of economic inequality.
It is a topic that has recently gained considerable attention in view of the widespread …

Bayesian structured additive distributional regression with an application to regional income inequality in Germany

N Klein, T Kneib, S Lang, A Sohn - 2015 - projecteuclid.org
Bayesian structured additive distributional regression with an application to regional income
inequality in Germany Page 1 The Annals of Applied Statistics 2015, Vol. 9, No. 2, 1024–1052 …

Statistical methods for distributional analysis

FA Cowell, E Flachaire - Handbook of income distribution, 2015 - Elsevier
This chapter discusses the formal and informal techniques that are commonly used to give
quantitative answers in the field of distributional analysis. To this end, it covers subjects …

Are your data really Pareto distributed?

P Cirillo - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2013 - Elsevier
Pareto distributions, and power laws in general, have demonstrated to be very useful
models to describe very different phenomena, from physics to finance. In recent years, the …

Bibliometric articles in business and management: Factors affecting production and scholarly impact

M Sánchez-Pérez, MB Marín-Carrillo… - Journal of Business …, 2025 - Elsevier
Based on different theoretical and publishing approaches, this study reveals that the
publication of bibliometric articles in business and management follows a logistic diffusion …

From the classical Gini index of income inequality to a new Zenga-type relative measure of risk: A modeller's perspective

F Greselin, R Zitikis - Econometrics, 2018 - mdpi.com
The underlying idea behind the construction of indices of economic inequality is based on
measuring deviations of various portions of low incomes from certain references or …

New classes of Lorenz curves by maximizing Tsallis entropy under mean and Gini equality and inequality constraints

V Preda, S Dedu, C Gheorghe - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2015 - Elsevier
In this paper, by using the entropy maximization principle with Tsallis entropy, new
distribution families for modeling the income distribution are derived. Also, new classes of …

Explicit expressions of the Pietra index for the generalized function for the size distribution of income

JM Sarabia, V Jordá - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2014 - Elsevier
The importance of the Pietra index in socioeconomic systems and econophysics has been
highlighted by Eliazar and Sokolov (2010). In this paper, we obtain closed expressions for …

The Lamé class of Lorenz curves

JM Sarabia, V Jordá, C Trueba - Communications in Statistics …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In this paper, the class of Lamé Lorenz curves is studied. This family has the advantage of
modeling inequality with a single parameter. The family has a double motivation: it can be …