Chapter 6
Statistical Methods for Distributional Analysis
Frank A. Cowell*; Emmanuel Flachaire† * STICERD, London School of Economics, London, UK† Aix-Marseille Université, AMSE & IUF, Marseille, France
Abstract
This chapter discusses the formal and informal techniques that are commonly used to give quantitative answers in the field of distributional analysis. To this end, it covers subjects including inequality, poverty, and the modeling of income distributions. It also deals with parametric and nonparametric approaches and the way in which imperfections in data may be handled in practice.
Keywords
Goodness of fit
Parametric modeling
Nonparametric methods
Dominance criteria
Welfare indices
Inequality measure
Poverty measure
Influence ...
