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This paper introduces a novel methodology for constructing multiclass ROC curves using the multidimensional Gini index. The proposed methodology leverages the established relationship between the Gini coefficient and the ROC Curve and…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-10-20 Paolo Giudici , Rosa C. Rosciano , Johanna Schrader , Delf-Magnus Kummerfeld

Determining an upper bound, particularly the optimal upper bound of the Gini coefficient when dealing with grouped data without specified income brackets, remains an important and open question. In this paper, we introduce an efficient…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-01-15 Pixu Shi , Anru R. Zhang

We propose a new approach to estimate selection-corrected quantiles of the gender wage gap. Our method employs instrumental variables that explain variation in the latent variable but, conditional on the latent process, do not directly…

Econometrics · Economics 2026-01-13 Egshiglen Batbayar , Christoph Breunig , Peter Haan , Boryana Ilieva

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

The analysis of the USA 2001 income distribution shows that it can be described by at least two main components, which obey the generalized Tsallis statistics with different values of the q parameter. Theoretical calculations using the gas…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2011-05-18 Juan C. Ferrero

This paper develops a nonparametric statistical model of wealth distribution that imposes little structure on the fluctuations of household wealth. In this setting, we use new techniques to obtain a closed-form household-by-household…

Economics · Quantitative Finance 2016-01-19 Ricardo T. Fernholz

The paper proposes new second-order accuracy metrics for scoring or rating models, which show the target preference of the model, it is better to diagnose good objects or better to diagnose bad ones for a constant generally accepted…

Risk Management · Quantitative Finance 2023-01-19 M. V. Pomazanov

We examine whether mobility measures appropriately represent changes in individual status, like income or ranks. We suggest three elementary principles for mobility comparisons and show that many commonly used indices violate one or more of…

General Economics · Economics 2025-02-28 Frank A. Cowell , Emmanuel Flachaire

Various indicators and measures of the real life procedures rise up as functionals of the quantile process of a parent random variable Z. However, Z can be observed only through a response in a linear model whose covariates are not under…

Methodology · Statistics 2024-04-04 Jana Jurečková , Jan Picek , Jan Kalina

The article examines the impact of 16 key parameters of the Georgian economy on economic inequality, using the Perelman model and Ricci flow mathematical methods. The study aims to conduct a deep analysis of the impact of socio-economic…

Econometrics · Economics 2025-01-03 Davit Gondauri

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

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

The simple linear model $$Y_i = \alpha + \beta \, x_i + \epsilon_i \qquad i=1,2, \ldots,N \geq 2$$ is considered, where the $x_i$'s are given constants and $\epsilon_1, \epsilon_2 , \ldots, \epsilon_N$ are iid with continuous distribution…

Methodology · Statistics 2014-11-19 D. M. Cifarelli

In this paper, we study the estimation for a partial-linear single-index model. A two-stage estimation procedure is proposed to estimate the link function for the single index and the parameters in the single index, as well as the…

Methodology · Statistics 2009-05-14 Jane-Ling Wang , Liugen Xue , Lixing Zhu , Yun Sam Chong

We propose a highly schematic economic model in which, in some cases, wage inequalities lead to higher overall social welfare. This is due to the fact that high earners can consume low productivity, non essential products, which allows…

General Economics · Economics 2020-04-22 Jean-Philippe Bouchaud

Income and wealth distribution affect stability of a society to a large extent and high inequality affects it negatively. Moreover, in the case of developed countries, recently has been proven that inequality is closely related to all…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2016-03-29 Elvis Oltean , Fedor Kusmartsev

The classical concept of inequality curves and measures is extended to conditional inequality curves and measures and a curve of conditional inequality measures is introduced. This extension provides a more nuanced analysis of inequality in…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Alicja Jokiel-Rokita , Sylwester Piątek , Rafał Topolnicki

Synthetic indices are used in Economics to measure various aspects of monetary inequalities. These scalar indices take as input the distribution over a finite population, for example the population of a specific country. In this article we…

Applications · Statistics 2011-09-06 Eric Gautier

This article describes mathematical methods for estimating the top-tail of the wealth distribution and therefrom the share of total wealth that the richest $p$ percent hold, which is an intuitive measure of inequality. As the data base for…

Applications · Statistics 2018-07-11 Christoph Dalitz

This article proposes a new method for the estimation of the parameters of a simple linear regression model which accounts for the role of co-moments in non-Gaussian distributions being based on the minimization of a quartic loss function.…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2014-03-18 Giuseppe arbia