On the bias of the Gini coefficient estimator for zero-truncated Poisson distributions
Methodology
2025-04-08 v1 Statistics Theory
Statistics Theory
Abstract
This paper analyzes the Gini coefficient estimator for zero-truncated Poisson populations, revealing the presence of bias, and provides a mathematical expression for the bias, along with a bias-corrected estimator, which is evaluated using Monte Carlo simulation methods.
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@article{arxiv.2504.04518,
title = {On the bias of the Gini coefficient estimator for zero-truncated Poisson distributions},
author = {Roberto Vila and Helton Saulo},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2504.04518},
year = {2025}
}
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12 pages, 2 figures