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Article #674How to plot Lorenz curves: Inquiry.
From: Michel Gelobter
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:44
Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:44
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I am looking for a way to plot a Lorenz curve. Does anyone know of a routine to do this in any software package? If you recall, a Lorenz curve is the function F(x)=y for 0<x<1 and is used to graph income distributions for example (GINI distributions). Thus as you go up the x-axis, expressed as percentage of the population, you also rise on the y-axis, expressed as percentage of wealth controlled by that percentage of the population. The curve allows you to see the extent of the concentration of wealth, or other things, like rare events. In any case, it is difficult to estimate, and I was wondering if anyone knew of a package that does it. I will post replies in a summary. Thanks!
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Newsgroups: sci.math.stat Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!wupost!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!rpi!news.columbia.edu!cunixb.cc.columbia.edu!mg78 From: mg78@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Michel Gelobter) Subject: How to plot Lorenz curves: Inquiry. Message-ID: <1992Dec23.134443.25952@news.columbia.edu> Sender: usenet@news.columbia.edu (The Network News) Nntp-Posting-Host: cunixb.cc.columbia.edu Reply-To: mg78@cunixb.cc.columbia.edu (Michel Gelobter) Organization: Columbia University Distribution: usa Date: Wed, 23 Dec 1992 13:44:43 GMT Lines: 16