Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences

Christian Kleiber, Samuel Kotz

332 pages, parution le 29/08/2003

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Résumé

A comprehensive account of economic size distributions around the world and throughout the years

In the course of the past 100 years, economists and applied statisticians have developed a remarkably diverse variety of income distribution models, yet no single resource convincingly accounts for all of these models, analyzing their strengths and weaknesses, similarities and differences. Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences is the first collection to systematically investigate a wide variety of parametric models that deal with income, wealth, and related notions.

Christian Kleiber and Samuel Kotz survey, compliment, compare, and unity all of the disparate models of income distribution, highlighting at times a lack of coordination between them that can result in unnecessary duplication. Considering models from eight languages and all continents, the authors discuss the social and economic implications of each as well as distributions ot size of loss in actuarial applications. Specific models covered include:

Pareto distributions
Lognormal distributions
Gamma-type size distributions
Beta-type size distributions
Miscellaneous size distributions

Three appendices provide brief biographies of some of the leading players along with the basic properties tit each of the distributions. Actuaries, economists, market researchers, social scientists, and physicists interested in econophysics will find Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences to be a truly one-of-a-kind addition to the professional literature.

Introduction
General principles
Pareto distributions
Lognormal distributions
Gamma-type size distributions
Beta-type size distributions
Miscellaneous size distributions
Appendixes

Caractéristiques techniques

	PAPIER
Éditeur(s)	Wiley
Auteur(s)	Christian Kleiber, Samuel Kotz
Parution	29/08/2003
Nb. de pages	332
Format	16 x 24
Couverture	Relié
Poids	615g
Intérieur	Noir et Blanc
EAN13	9780471150640
ISBN13	978-0-471-15064-0