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Activity Number: 130
Type: Contributed
Date/Time: Monday, August 3, 2009 : 8:30 AM to 10:20 AM
Sponsor: Business and Economic Statistics Section
Abstract - #305176
Title: A New Way of Gini Coefficient Decomposition and Its Application to the Chinese National Macro-Economy Data
Author(s): Xu Cao*+
Companies: Southwestern University of Finance and Economics
Address: Guanghuacun Street #55, Chengdu,Sichuan, International, 610074, P.R.China
Keywords: Gini coefficient ; Pitman's estimator ; income difference
Abstract:

Gini coefficient has been used widely to measure the income difference. In this paper, a new methodology of decomposition of Gini coefficient has been derived. And its application to Chinese national macroeconomy data has been studied. To fit the Chinese national income data, the pitman's estimator has been found where the UMVUE doesn't exist.

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