Talk:Gini coefficient
From Academic Kids
hee I have a question about calculating the gini-coeffiecient: at this site they say you can calculate the gini-coeffiecient by A/(A+B) bud my question is how do you calculate A and B?!
- How is your integral calculus? If you have curves available, you integrate the area under each curve. If no curves have been created yet, then you need to construct them. mydogategodshat 16:36, 11 May 2004 (UTC)
Yes I think what you mean is: for instance suppose, in a perfectly egalitarian sociaety that everyone has the same income. The curves are degenerate. The correct way to think of this is as probability distribution functions and the gini coefficent is a measure of non-uniformity, such as Renyi entropy (but most certainly not Shannon entropy). I'll think about this.CSTAR 22:50, 17 May 2004 (UTC)
I added some information on Gini coefficients in the U.S. It'd be better to have it for other countries as well — does anyone have that sort of data? Factitious 16:00, Oct 13, 2004 (UTC)
- Yes, they are in the UN Human development report linked in the page - I will add some... - Marcika 22:29, 18 Nov 2004 (UTC)
