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| author | Giudici, Paolo Raffinetti, Emanuela Toscani, Giuseppe |
| author_facet | Giudici, Paolo Raffinetti, Emanuela Toscani, Giuseppe |
| contents | Inequality measures are quantitative measures that take values in the unit interval, with a zero value characterizing perfect equality. Although originally proposed to measure economic inequalities, they can be applied to several other situations, in which one is interested in the mutual variability between a set of observations, rather than in their deviations from the mean. While unidimensional measures of inequality, such as the Gini index, are widely known and employed, multidimensional measures, such as Lorenz Zonoids, are difficult to interpret and computationally expensive and, for these reasons, are not much well known. To overcome the problem, in this paper we propose a new scaling invariant multidimensional inequality index, based on the Fourier transform, which exhibits a number of interesting properties, and whose application to the multidimensional case is rather straightforward to calculate and interpret. |
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| spellingShingle | Measuring multidimensional inequality: a new proposal based on the Fourier transform Giudici, Paolo Raffinetti, Emanuela Toscani, Giuseppe Physics and Society Information Theory Probability Inequality measures are quantitative measures that take values in the unit interval, with a zero value characterizing perfect equality. Although originally proposed to measure economic inequalities, they can be applied to several other situations, in which one is interested in the mutual variability between a set of observations, rather than in their deviations from the mean. While unidimensional measures of inequality, such as the Gini index, are widely known and employed, multidimensional measures, such as Lorenz Zonoids, are difficult to interpret and computationally expensive and, for these reasons, are not much well known. To overcome the problem, in this paper we propose a new scaling invariant multidimensional inequality index, based on the Fourier transform, which exhibits a number of interesting properties, and whose application to the multidimensional case is rather straightforward to calculate and interpret. |
| title | Measuring multidimensional inequality: a new proposal based on the Fourier transform |
| topic | Physics and Society Information Theory Probability |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.14012 |