equitable distribution of health system resources has been a serious challenge for long ago among the health policy makers. conducted studies have mostly ever had emphasis on equality rather than equity. in this paper we have attempted to examine both equality and equity in resources distribution.this is an applied and descriptive study in which we plotted lorenz and concentration curves to des...

We model the distribution of normalized interpoint distances (IDs) on the minimal spanning tree (MST) using multivariate beta vectors. We define overlapping sums of the components of a Dirichlet distribution to construct multivariate beta distributions. We also use a multivariate normal copula with beta marginals to define beta vectors. Based on the ordered IDs of the MST, we define a multivari...

Abbreviations: API, application program interface; C Gini coefficient; EMD, earth mover's distance; GINI, Positioning System; JSD, Jensen-Shannon divergence; KLD LA, Los Angeles; LBSN, location-based social network; MR New Orleans; NYC, New York City; POI, point(s) of intere ⁎ Corresponding author. E-mail address: [email protected] (G. Mc 1 We use the term point of interest here to k...

This article reports on mean consumption, poverty (all three FGT measures) and inequality during 2004 for rural India using National Sample Survey (NSS) data for the 60th Round. Mean consumption at the national level is much higher than the poverty line. However, the Gini coefficient is higher than in recent earlier rounds. The headcount ratio is 22.9 per cent. Mean consumption, all three measu...

The dilemma which remained unsolved using Rao-Stirling diversity, namely of how variety and balance can be combined into “dual concept diversity” (Stirling, 1998, pp. 48f.) can be clarified by using Nijssen et al.’s (1998) argument that the Gini coefficient is a perfect indicator of balance. However, the Gini coefficient is not an indicator of variety; this latter term can be operationalized in...