List of Figures |
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List of Tables |
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Preface to the First Edition |
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Preface to the Second Edition |
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1 Historical sketch with emphasis on income modeling |
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2 | (5) |
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2 Models for income distributions |
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2.2 The Law of Proportional Effect (Gibrat) |
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2.3 A Markov Chain Model (Champernowne) |
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2.4 The Coin Shower (Ericson) |
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24 | (1) |
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2.5 An Open Population Model (Rutherford) |
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25 | (2) |
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2.6 The Yule Distribution (Simon) |
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2.7 Income Determined by Inherited Wealth (Wold-Whittle) |
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30 | (1) |
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2.9 Competitive Bidding for Employment (Arnold and Laguna) |
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31 | (2) |
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33 | (2) |
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2.11 Parametric Families for Fitting Income Distributions |
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35 | (6) |
3 Pareto and related heavy-tailed distributions |
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41 | (1) |
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3.2 The Generalized Pareto Distributions |
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41 | (6) |
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3.3 Distributional Properties |
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47 | (8) |
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47 | (1) |
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3.3.4 Standard Pareto Distribution |
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50 | (1) |
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3.3.5 Infinite Divisibility |
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3.3.6 Reliability, P(X1 <X2) |
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50 | (1) |
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51 | (2) |
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3.3.8 Products of Pareto Variables |
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53 | (1) |
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3.3.9 Mixtures, Random Sums and Random Extrema |
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54 | (1) |
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55 | (9) |
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3.4.1 Ratios of Order Statistics |
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57 | (2) |
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59 | (4) |
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3.4.3 Moments in the Presence of Truncation |
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63 | (1) |
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64 | (3) |
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3.6 Generalized Order Statistics |
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67 | (2) |
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69 | (2) |
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71 | (7) |
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3.8.4 Generalized Order Statistics |
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3.8.6 Geometric Minimization and Maximization |
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3.8.7 Record Values Once More |
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77 | (1) |
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78 | (22) |
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78 | (4) |
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3.9.2 Truncation Equivalent to Resealing |
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82 | (1) |
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3.9.3 Inequality Measures |
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83 | (1) |
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3.9.4 Under-reported Income |
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84 | (2) |
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3.9.5 Functions of Order Statistics |
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86 | (7) |
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93 | (1) |
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3.9.7 Generalized Order Statistics |
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94 | (3) |
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3.9.8 Entropy Maximization |
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97 | (1) |
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3.9.9 Pareto (III) Characterizations |
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98 | (1) |
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3.9.10 Two More Characterizations |
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99 | (1) |
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3.10 Related Distributions |
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100 | (10) |
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3.11 The Discrete Pareto (Zipf) Distribution |
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110 | (5) |
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110 | (1) |
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3.11.2 Zipf Distributions |
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111 | (1) |
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3.11.3 Simon Distributions |
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112 | (2) |
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114 | (1) |
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4 Measures of inequality |
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4.1 Apologia for Prolixity |
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117 | (1) |
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4.2 Common Measures of Inequality of Distributions |
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118 | (52) |
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121 | (2) |
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4.2.2 Inequality Measures Derived from the Lorenz Curve |
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4.2.3 The Effect of Grouping |
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135 | (4) |
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4.2.4 Multivariate Lorenz Curves |
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139 | (6) |
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4.2.5 Moment Distributions |
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145 | (3) |
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4.2.6 Related Reliability Concepts |
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148 | (1) |
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4.2.7 Relations Between Inequality Measures |
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149 | (1) |
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4.2.8 Inequality Measures for Specific Distributions |
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149 | (8) |
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4.2.9 Families of Lorenz Curves |
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157 | (9) |
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4.2.10 Some Alternative Inequality Curves |
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166 | (4) |
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4.3 Inequality Statistics |
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4.3.1 Graphical Techniques |
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171 | (4) |
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4.3.2 Analytic Measures of Inequality |
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175 | (8) |
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4.3.3 The Sample Gini Index |
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183 | (2) |
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4.3.4 Sample Lorenz Curve |
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185 | (4) |
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4.3.5 Further Sample Measures of Inequality |
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189 | (4) |
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4.3.6 Relations Between Sample Inequality Measures |
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193 | (1) |
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4.4 Inequality Principles and Utility |
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4.4.1 Inequality Principles |
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195 | (1) |
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4.4.2 Transfers, Majorization and the Lorenz Order |
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196 | (7) |
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4.4.3 How Transformations Affect Inequality |
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203 | (6) |
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4.4.4 Weighting and Mixing |
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209 | (2) |
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4.4.5 Lorenz Order within Parametric Families |
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211 | (1) |
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4.4.6 The Lorenz Order and Order Statistics |
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212 | (2) |
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214 | (2) |
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4.4.8 Multivariate Extensions of the Lorenz Order |
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216 | (5) |
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4.5 Optimal Income Distributions |
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221 | (2) |
5 Inference for Pareto distributions |
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223 | (76) |
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223 | (1) |
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224 | (40) |
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224 | (3) |
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5.2.2 Best Unbiased and Related Estimates |
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227 | (6) |
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5.2.3 Moment and Quantile Estimates |
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233 | (3) |
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5.2.4 A Graphical Technique |
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236 | (1) |
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236 | (7) |
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5.2.6 Bayes Estimates Based on Other Data Configurations |
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243 | (3) |
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246 | (2) |
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5.2.8 Empirical Bayes Estimation |
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248 | (1) |
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5.2.9 Miscellaneous Bayesian Contributions |
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249 | (1) |
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5.2.10 Maximum Likelihood for Generalized Pareto Distributions |
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249 | (5) |
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5.2.11 Estimates Using the Method of Moments and Estimating Equations for Generalized Pareto Distributions |
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254 | (5) |
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5.2.12 Order Statistic Estimates for Generalized Pareto Distributions |
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259 | (4) |
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5.2.13 Bayes Estimates for Generalized Pareto Distributions |
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263 | (1) |
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264 | (4) |
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5.4 Parametric Hypotheses |
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268 | (1) |
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5.5 Tests to Aid in Model Selection |
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269 | (6) |
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5.6 Specialized Techniques for Various Data Configurations |
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275 | (8) |
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283 | (5) |
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5.8 Inference for Related Distributions |
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288 | (11) |
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289 | (1) |
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5.8.2 Simon Distributions |
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289 | (3) |
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5.8.3 Waring Distribution |
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292 | (1) |
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5.8.4 Under-reported Income Distributions |
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293 | (3) |
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5.8.5 Inference for Flexible Extensions of Pareto Models |
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296 | (2) |
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298 | (1) |
6 Multivariate Pareto distributions |
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299 | (54) |
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299 | (1) |
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6.1 A Hierarchy of Multivariate Pareto Models |
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299 | (11) |
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6.1.1 Mardia's First Multivariate Pareto Model |
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299 | (1) |
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6.1.2 A Hierarchy of Generalizations |
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300 | (4) |
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6.1.3 Distributional Properties of the Generalized Multivariate Pareto Models |
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304 | (5) |
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6.1.4 Some Characterizations of Multivariate Pareto Models |
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309 | (1) |
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6.2 Alternative Multivariate Pareto Distributions |
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310 | (18) |
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6.2.1 Mixtures of Weibull Variables |
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310 | (2) |
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6.2.2 Transformed Exponential Variables |
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312 | (1) |
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6.2.3 Trivariate Reduction |
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313 | (2) |
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6.2.4 Geometric Minimization and Maximization |
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315 | (4) |
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6.2.5 Building Multivariate Pareto Models Using Independent Gamma Distributed Components |
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319 | (2) |
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6.2.6 Other Bivariate and Multivariate Pareto Models |
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321 | (2) |
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6.2.7 General Classes of Bivariate Pareto Distributions |
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323 | (2) |
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6.2.8 A Flexible Multivariate Pareto Model |
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325 | (2) |
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6.2.9 Matrix-variate Pareto Distributions |
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327 | (1) |
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6.3 Related Multivariate Models |
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328 | (8) |
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6.3.1 Conditionally Specified Models |
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328 | (4) |
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6.3.2 Multivariate Hidden Truncation Models |
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332 | (2) |
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334 | (1) |
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6.3.4 Kumaraswamy Extensions |
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334 | (1) |
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6.3.5 Multivariate Semi-Pareto Distributions |
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335 | (1) |
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6.4 Pareto and Semi-Pareto Processes |
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336 | (4) |
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6.5 Inference for Multivariate Pareto Distributions |
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340 | (10) |
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6.5.1 Estimation for Mardia's Multivariate Pareto Families |
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340 | (2) |
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6.5.2 Estimation for More General Multivariate Pareto Families |
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342 | (5) |
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6.5.3 A Confidence Interval Based on a Multivariate Pareto Sample |
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347 | (2) |
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349 | (1) |
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6.6 Multivariate Discrete Pareto (Zipf) Distributions |
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A Historical income data sources |
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353 | (6) |
B Two representative data sets |
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359 | (10) |
C A quarterly household income data set |
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369 | (2) |
References |
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Subject Index |
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409 | (12) |
Author Index |
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