Sensitivity Aspects of Inequality Measures
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It is intuitively easy to understand what is meant by inequality measures. That is because applications occur in very sensitive situations : rich vs. poor persons or countries, high productivity vs. low productivity (in various aspects : economic, scientific, biological, ...). Inequality applies to virtually every aspect of human and non human life. It is, therefore, not surprising that one wishes to measure "degrees" of inequality. Such inequality measures (also called concentration measures) have the property that, the larger the value, the more unequal [uneven, concentrated) the situation is. Usually these measures are "normalized" so that they range between 0 and 1, but this is not necessary.
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تاریخ انتشار 2005