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원의 성질을 이용한 GINI INDEX의 추정

Estimation of the Gini Index Based on the Properties of Circle

  • 발행 : 2003.09.01

초록

소득분배의 가장 대표적인 불평등척도는 Gini index이며, 이것은 통계학자인 Gini가 제안한 지표로서 소득분배 에 관한 분석에서 가장 널리 이용되고 있다. 본 논문에서는 두 원의 호에 의해 Lorenz 곡선을 추정하고 코사인법칙을 이용하여 Gini index를 추정하기 위한 새로운 간편한 방법을 제시하여, 소득분포를 따르는 파레토분포에서모의실험을 통해 Ogwang and Rao (1996)의 추정방법과 평균제곱오차 면에서 비교 분석한다.

The Gini index is one of the most commonly used measures of inequality of income distributions. In this paper, the Lorenz curve is estimated by arcs of two optimal circles, and a new simple method to estimate the Gini index is proposed using the law of cosines. We compare the proposed estimator with the estimator proposed by Ogwang and Rao(1996) in terms of the mean squared error(MSE) though Monte Carlo simulation in a Pareto distribution.

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