From mean and median income to the most adequateway of taking inequality into account

• Main Authors: Kreinovich V., Nguyen H., Ouncharoen R.
• 格式: Article
• 出版: Springer Verlag 2015
• 主題: Artificial Intelligence
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© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2015. How can we compare the incomes of two different countries or regions? At first glance, it is sufficient to compare the mean incomes, but this is known to be not a very adequate comparison: according to this criterion, a very poor country with a f...