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| author | Toscani, Giuseppe |
| author_facet | Toscani, Giuseppe |
| contents | Measuring inequalities in a multidimensional framework is a challenging problem which is common to most field of science and engineering. Nevertheless, despite the enormous amount of researches illustrating the fields of application of inequality indices, and of the Gini index in particular, very few consider the case of a multidimensional variable. In this paper, we consider in some details a new inequality index, based on the Fourier transform, that can be fruitfully applied to measure the degree of inhomogeneity of multivariate probability distributions. This index exhibits a number of interesting properties that make it very promising in quantifying the degree of inequality in data sets of complex and multifaceted social phenomena. |
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| spellingShingle | Measuring multidimensional heterogeneity in emergent social phenomena Toscani, Giuseppe Physics and Society Methodology Measuring inequalities in a multidimensional framework is a challenging problem which is common to most field of science and engineering. Nevertheless, despite the enormous amount of researches illustrating the fields of application of inequality indices, and of the Gini index in particular, very few consider the case of a multidimensional variable. In this paper, we consider in some details a new inequality index, based on the Fourier transform, that can be fruitfully applied to measure the degree of inhomogeneity of multivariate probability distributions. This index exhibits a number of interesting properties that make it very promising in quantifying the degree of inequality in data sets of complex and multifaceted social phenomena. |
| title | Measuring multidimensional heterogeneity in emergent social phenomena |
| topic | Physics and Society Methodology |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2310.20483 |