• Title of article

    Estimation of Lorenz curves: a Bayesian nonparametric approach

  • Author/Authors

    Hasegawa، نويسنده , , Hikaru and Kozumi، نويسنده , , Hideo، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    دوفصلنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2003
  • Pages
    15
  • From page
    277
  • To page
    291
  • Abstract
    In this article, we estimate Lorenz curves using the recent development of the Bayesian nonparametric method with Dirichlet process prior. We also consider contaminated observations of income and propose a method for removing these contaminated observations. Further, we present examples using both simulated data and real data to illustrate our approach.
  • Keywords
    Dirichlet process , Gini index , Income distribution , Inequality , Markov chain Monte Carlo (MCMC)
  • Journal title
    Journal of Econometrics
  • Serial Year
    2003
  • Journal title
    Journal of Econometrics
  • Record number

    1558400