A comparison between the Pearson-based dissimilarity index and the multiple-group overlap index

<p>The Overlap Index has received renewed attention as a measure of inequality between two distributions (e.g. Anderson, Ge, and Leo, 2010). In this paper I propose a straightforward extension of the Overlap index to comparisons of multinomial, multivariate distributions of wellbeing over seve...

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Main Author: Yalonetzky, G
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) 2010