On the Property of Dullness of Pareto Distribution.

Abstract

In the analysis of income distribution, it has been observed that the true income is usually underreported. In this paper we study the statistical prperties of reported incomes through a multiplicative underreported model. The concept of 'locally nearly dullness' of the reported income is introduced and studied. The above property of dullness has been used to characterize the Pareto distribution for the problem of reported incomes. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Jul 01, 1982
Accession Number
ADA119631

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People

  • Wing-yue Wong

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  • Purdue University

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  • Contracts
  • Distribution Functions
  • Governments
  • Military Research
  • Probability
  • Random Variables
  • Statistics
  • United States
  • United States Government
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  • Mathematics

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