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stat.ME2026
Empirical Likelihood Inference for Sen and Sen--Shorrocks--Thon Indices
Sreelakshmi N, Saparya Suresh, Sudheesh K. Kattumannil
The Sen index and Sen-Shorrocks-Thon (SST) index are widely used measures of poverty indices. Developing reliable inference for these measures enables us to compare these measures…
stat.ME2025
JEL ratio test for independence between a continuous and a categorical random variable
Saparya Suresh, Sudheesh K. Kattumannil
The categorical Gini covariance is a dependence measure between a numerical variable and a categorical variable. The Gini covariance measures dependence by quantifying the differen…
stat.ME2024
A New measure of income inequality
Sudheesh K Kattumannil, Saparya Suresh
A new measure of income inequality that captures the heavy tail behavior of the income distribution is proposed. We discuss two different approaches to find the estimators of the p…