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Equity Analysis by Functional Approach

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A notion of relative poverty leads to different types of one-parametric Lorenz curves. These curves allow to compare any individual income to the average of all larger or all smaller incomes. The underlying least square fittings are effectively computable.

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Kämpke, T., Radermacher, F.J. (2005). Equity Analysis by Functional Approach. In: Baier, D., Decker, R., Schmidt-Thieme, L. (eds) Data Analysis and Decision Support. Studies in Classification, Data Analysis, and Knowledge Organization. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-28397-8_27

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