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Entropy is a measure of heterogeneity widely used in applied sciences, often when data are collected over space. Recently, a number of approaches has been proposed to include spatial information in entropy. The aim of entropy is to…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Linda Altieri , Daniela Cocchi , Giulia Roli

This article focuses on some properties of three tools used to measure economic inequalities with respect to a distribution of wealth $\mu$: Gini coefficient $G$, Hoover coefficient or Robin Hood coefficient $H$, and the Lorenz…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Valentin Melot

Inequality measures such as the Gini coefficient are used to inform and motivate policymaking, and are increasingly applied to digital platforms. We analyze how measures fare in pseudonymous settings that are common in the digital age. One…

Computer Science and Game Theory · Computer Science 2026-03-24 Aviv Yaish , Nir Chemaya , Dahlia Malkhi , Lin William Cong

In this paper, we propose two new flexible Gini indices (extended lower and upper) defined via differences between the $i$-th observation, the smallest order statistic, and the largest order statistic, for any $1 \leqslant i \leqslant m$.…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-06-03 Roberto Vila , Helton Saulo

There is growing interest in designing recommender systems that aim at being fair towards item producers or their least satisfied users. Inspired by the domain of inequality measurement in economics, this paper explores the use of…

Information Retrieval · Computer Science 2023-03-29 Virginie Do , Nicolas Usunier

The paper covers the new model of wage distribution in typical group of people. The model provides the opportunity to reparameterize applicable income distribution model: Pareto, logarithmically normal, logarithmically logistic, Dagum etc.…

General Finance · Quantitative Finance 2013-09-17 Dmitry Schmerling

The centrality of a node within a network, however it is measured, is a vital proxy for the importance or influence of that node, and the differences in node centrality generate hierarchies and inequalities. If the network is evolving in…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2023-01-09 Matthew Russell Barnes , Vincenzo Nicosia , Richard G. Clegg

The Gini index is a widely reported measure of income inequality. In some settings, the underlying data used to compute the Gini index are confidential. The organization charged with reporting the Gini index may be concerned that its…

Methodology · Statistics 2025-11-26 Wenjie Lan , Jerome P. Reiter

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

Diversity indices are useful single-number metrics for characterizing a complex distribution of a set of attributes across a population of interest. The utility of these different metrics or sets of metrics depend on the context and…

Populations and Evolution · Quantitative Biology 2020-03-06 Song Xu , Lucas Böttcher , Tom Chou

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

We obtain some maximal probability and moment inequalities for multidimensionally indexed demimartingales. Although the class of single-indexed demimartingales has been studied extensively, no significant amount of work has been done for…

Probability · Mathematics 2022-10-04 Milto Hadjikyriakou , B. L. S. Prakasa Rao

For the comparison of inequality and welfare in multiple attributes the use of generalized Gini indices is proposed. Individual endowment vectors are summarized by using attribute weights and aggregated in a spectral social evaluation…

Applications · Statistics 2022-11-10 Karl Mosler

Univariate and multivariate normal probability distributions are widely used when modeling decisions under uncertainty. Computing the performance of such models requires integrating these distributions over specific domains, which can vary…

Machine Learning · Statistics 2024-07-31 Abhranil Das , Wilson S Geisler

Exploiting the geometric nature of statistical divergences, we devise a way to define associated induced uncertainty measures for discrete and finite probability distributions. We also report new uncertainty measures and discuss their…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-06-29 Gautam Sharma , Sk Sazim

The software Randentropy is designed to estimate inequality in a random system where several individuals interact moving among many communities and producing dependent random quantities of an attribute. The overall inequality is assessed by…

Statistical Finance · Quantitative Finance 2021-03-17 Guglielmo D'Amico , Stefania Scocchera , Loriano Storchi

The coefficient of variation is a useful indicator for comparing the spread of values between dataset with different units or widely different means. In this paper we address the problem of investigating the equality of the coefficients of…

Methodology · Statistics 2023-06-06 Francesco Bertolino , Silvia Columbu , Mara Manca , Monica Musio

Intersectionality is a framework that analyzes how interlocking systems of power and oppression affect individuals along overlapping dimensions including race, gender, sexual orientation, class, and disability. Intersectionality theory…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2019-09-11 James Foulds , Rashidul Islam , Kamrun Keya , Shimei Pan

Real-world complex systems are often better modeled as hypergraphs, where edges represent group interactions involving multiple entities. Understanding and quantifying homophily (similarity-driven association) in such networks is essential…

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