The distribution of errors is a central object in the assesment and benchmarking computational chemistry methods. popular often blind use mean unsigned error as statistic leads to ignore distributions features that impact reliability tested We explore how Gini coefficient offers global representation distribution, but, except for extreme values, does not enable an unambiguous diagnostic. propos...

This paper aims to clarify the association between various social capital components at the municipal level (community social capital) and two quality-of-life factors at the individual level [individual self-rated life satisfaction and self-rated health (SRH)] based on data from a nationwide social capital survey that the authors carried out in 2013 in Japan (N = 3406 in 99 municipalities). The...

This article offers a quantitative analysis of wealth inequality in the Ottoman Empire, employing data from probate inventories (terekes) of eighteenth-century Kastamonu, a town located in northern Anatolia. Extracting information on the wealth levels and personal characteristics of individuals, we estimate aggregate measures of wealth inequality, namely the Gini Coefficient, the coefficient of...

BACKGROUND Although seasonality is a defining characteristic of many infectious diseases, few studies have described and compared seasonal patterns across diseases globally, impeding our understanding of putative mechanisms. Here, we review seasonal patterns across five enteric zoonotic diseases: campylobacteriosis, salmonellosis, vero-cytotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC), cryptosporidiosis an...

Abstract We analyze a political competition model of redistributive policies. provide an equilibrium existence result and full characterization the net transfers to different income groups. also derive several testable predictions about way in which group after-tax Gini coefficient vary with main parameters model. In accordance theory, empirical evidence from sample developed developing democra...