Growing interest in inequality has generated an outpouring of scholarly research and has brought many discussions on the subject into the public realm. Surprisingly, most of these studies and discussions rely on a narrow set of indicators to measure inequality. Most of the time a single summary measure of inequality is considered: the Gini coefficient. This is surprising not only because there ...

Decision trees have been found very effective for classification especially in Data Mining. This paper aims at improving the performance of the SLIQ decision tree algorithm (Mehta et. al,1996) for classification in data mining The drawback of this algorithm is that large number of gini indices have to be computed at each node of the decision tree. In order to decide which attribute is to be spl...

BACKGROUND Positive greenness effects on health are increasingly reported, although studies on allergic outcomes remain limited and conflicting. We examined whether residential greenness is associated with childhood doctor diagnosed allergic rhinitis, eyes and nose symptoms and aeroallergen sensitisation using two combined birth cohorts (GINIplus and LISAplus) followed from birth to 10 years in...

We propose a statistical index for measuring the fluctuations of a stochastic process ξ. This index is based on the generalized Lorenz curves and (modified) Gini indices of econometric theory. When ξ is a fractional Brownian motion with Hurst index α ∈ (0, 1), we develop a complete picture of the asymptotic theory of our index. In particular, we show that the asymptotic behavior of our proposed...

background : one of the major health policy issues, in the both developed and developing countries, is the equality in the distribution of health resources. the aim of this study was to investigate the disparity in the distribution of health physical resources across the provinces of iran in 2001 and 2011. methods : this was a cross-sectional retrospective study which investigated inequality in...

We investigate the repeated averaging model for money exchanges: two agents picked uniformly at random share half of their wealth to each other. It is intuitively convincing that a Dirac distribution (centered initial average wealth) will be long time equilibrium this dynamics. In other words, Gini index should converge zero. To better understand dynamics, we its limit as number goes infinity b...