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Income inequality estimation with gamma mixtures
Roberto Vila, Helton Saulo, Felipe Quintino
This paper studies the estimation of the th Gini index under finite mixtures of gamma distributions. We derive closed-form expressions for the th Gini index and for the expec…
Unbiased estimation of normalized scale-invariant indices under the Gamma distribution
Roberto Vila, Helton Saulo, Felipe Quintino
We introduce a broad class of normalized scale-invariant indices (NSIIs) generated by measurable symmetric homogeneous functions and encompassing several well-known measures, inclu…
Length-biased Birnbaum-Saunders quantile regression with application to water evaporation
Helton Saulo, Tailine Nonato, Roberto Vila
Length-biased distributions arise naturally in environmental, reliability, and economic studies where the sampling mechanism favors larger observational units. In this paper, we pr…
The arithmetic-harmonic inequality index: Theory, inference, and finite-sample analysis
Roberto Vila, Helton Saulo
We investigate the arithmetic-harmonic inequality (AHI) index, a bounded and scale-invariant measure of dispersion for positive random variables, defined through the interplay betw…
Unifying the Hoover and Gini indices: Analytical, bias, and computational aspects
Roberto Vila, Helton Saulo, Felipe Quintino
We propose a new family of inequality indices that bridges the Hoover index and the Gini coefficient. The measure is defined as the normalized expected absolute value of a convex c…
Modeling double bounded data based on correlated gamma random variables
Roberto Vila, Felipe Quintino, Marcelo Bourguignon
Many types of bounded data defined on the unit interval arise naturally as ratios of the form . In the existing literature, the main statistical models proposed for this…
On the bias of the Hoover index estimator: Results for the gamma distribution
Roberto Vila, Helton Saulo
The Hoover index is a widely used measure of inequality with an intuitive interpretation, yet little is known about the finite-sample properties of its empirical estimator. In this…