Orden de Lorenz en la familia de distribuciones gamma triparamétricas

  1. Ramos Romero, Héctor Manuel
  2. Sordo Díaz, Miguel Angel
Journal:
Pecunia: revista de la Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales
  1. Mures Quintana, María Jesús (coord.)

ISSN: 1699-9495

Year of publication: 2012

Issue Title: Estadística aplicada a la Investigación Cuantitativa = Applied statistics to Quantitative Research

Issue: 1

Pages: 21-30

Type: Article

DOI: 10.18002/PEC.V0I2012.1105 DIALNET GOOGLE SCHOLAR lock_openDialnet editor

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Abstract

Lorenz ordering is an useful tool for comparing inequality of income distributions. In this note, we give a sufficient condition for this order and then apply it to order the three parameter family of Gamma distributions

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