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Measuring the degree of inequality expressed by a multivariate statistical distribution is a challenging problem, which appears in many fields of science and engineering. In this paper, we propose to extend the well known univariate Gini…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-09-17 Gennaro Auricchio , Paolo Giudici , Giuseppe Toscani

The Gini coefficient of the life table is a concentration index that provides information on lifespan variation. Originally proposed by economists to measure income and wealth inequalities, it has been widely used in population studies to…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2022-09-28 José Manuel Aburto , Ugofilippo Basellini , Annette Baudisch , Francisco Villavicencio

Measuring inequalities in a multidimensional framework is a challenging problem which is common to most field of science and engineering. Nevertheless, despite the enormous amount of researches illustrating the fields of application of…

Physics and Society · Physics 2025-03-19 Giuseppe Toscani

The aim of this paper is to establish the asymptotic behavior of the mutual influence of the Gini index and the poverty measures by using the Gaussian fields described in Mergane and Lo(2013). The results are given as representation…

Methodology · Statistics 2017-05-29 Gane Samb Lo , Pape Djiby Mergane , Tchilabalo Abozou Kpanzou

This paper pays tribute to Professor Giovanni Andrea Cornia's lifelong contributions to the measurement of global inequality. We review twelve world and regional databases of the Gini coefficient, illustrate their coverage, overlapping, and…

General Economics · Economics 2026-03-20 Lidia Ceriani , Paolo Verme

The coefficient of variation, which measures the variability of a distribution from its mean, is not uniquely defined in the multidimensional case, and so is the multidimensional Gini index, which measures the inequality of a distribution…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2024-12-02 Gennaro Auricchio , Paolo Giudici , Giuseppe Toscani

In this paper, we draw attention to a promising yet slightly underestimated measure of variability - the Gini coefficient. We describe two new ways of defining and interpreting this parameter. Using our new representations, we compute the…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2022-10-13 Marta Milewska , Remco van der Hofstad , Bert Zwart

In this article we study the "norm" of an integer partition, which we define to be the product of the parts. This partition-theoretic statistic has appeared here and there in the literature of the last century or so, and is at the heart of…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2021-02-16 Andrew V. Sills , Robert Schneider

Originally developed for measuring the heterogeneity of wealth measures, inequality indices are quantitative scores that take values in the unit interval, with the zero score characterizing perfect equality. In this paper, we draw attention…

Physics and Society · Physics 2022-10-03 Giuseppe Toscani

In this paper, we study the inequality indices for some models of wealth exchange. We calculated Gini index and newly introduced k-index and compare the results with reported empirical data available for different countries. We have found…

Physics and Society · Physics 2016-03-21 Asim Ghosh , Arnab Chatterjee , Jun-ichi Inoue , Bikas K. Chakrabarti

Inequality measures are quantitative measures that take values in the unit interval, with a zero value characterizing perfect equality. Although originally proposed to measure economic inequalities, they can be applied to several other…

Physics and Society · Physics 2024-01-26 Paolo Giudici , Emanuela Raffinetti , Giuseppe Toscani

Many existing fairness metrics measure group-wise demographic disparities in system behavior or model performance. Calculating these metrics requires access to demographic information, which, in industrial settings, is often unavailable. By…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2024-09-13 Avijit Ghosh , Tomo Lazovich , Kristian Lum , Christo Wilson

The Gini coefficient is an universally used measurement of income inequality. Intersectoral GDP contributions reveal the economic development of different sectors of the national economy. Linking intersectoral GDP contributions to Gini…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-05-14 Jingcheng Meng , Yimeng Ren , Xuening Zhu , Guanyu Hu

Income inequality is known to have negative impacts on an economic system, thus has been debated for a hundred years past or more. Numerous ideas have been proposed to quantify income inequality, and the Gini coefficient is a prevalent…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2021-06-09 Ji-Won Park , Chae Un Kim

The Gini score is a popular tool in statistical modeling and machine learning for model validation and model selection. It is a purely rank based score that allows one to assess risk rankings. The Gini score for statistical modeling has…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2025-11-20 Alexej Brauer , Mario V. Wüthrich

We demonstrate that Gini coefficients can be used as unified metrics to evaluate many-versus-many (all-to-all) similarity in vector spaces. Our analysis of various image datasets shows that images with the highest Gini coefficients tend to…

Artificial Intelligence · Computer Science 2024-11-13 Ben Fauber

The distribution of errors is a central object in the assesment and benchmarking of computational chemistry methods. The popular and often blind use of the mean unsigned error as a benchmarking statistic leads to ignore distributions…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2021-02-19 Pascal Pernot , Andreas Savin

In several recent works on infinite-dimensional systems of ODEs \cite{cao_derivation_2021,cao_explicit_2021,cao_iterative_2024,cao_sticky_2024}, which arise from the mean-field limit of agent-based models in economics and social sciences…

Mathematical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2024-09-24 Fei Cao

We study the mathematical and economic structure of the Kolkata (k) index of income inequality. We show that the k-index always exists and is a unique fixed point of the complementary Lorenz function, where the Lorenz function itself gives…

Theoretical Economics · Economics 2020-10-27 Suchismita Banerjee , Bikas K. Chakrabarti , Manipushpak Mitra , Suresh Mutuswami

Social inequalities are ubiquitous and evolve towards a universal limit. Herein, we extensively review the values of inequality measures, namely the Gini ($g$) index and the Kolkata ($k$) index, two standard measures of inequality used in…

Physics and Society · Physics 2023-05-03 Suchismita Banerjee , Soumyajyoti Biswas , Bikas K. Chakrabarti , Asim Ghosh , Manipushpak Mitra