Middle Income Positioning and Population Measurement Based on The Lorenz Curves

Middle Income Positioning and Population Measurement Based on The Lorenz Curves

Jincan Liu Xin Liu

College of Civil Engineering and Architecture, Hainan University, Renmin Road No.58, Meilan District, Haikou, Hainan, China

School of Mathematics and Statistics, Xidian University Xifeng Road No.266, Changan District, Xian, Shaanxi, China

Corresponding Author Email: 
1850753011@qq.com, 970749805@qq.com
Page: 
50-63
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DOI: 
https://doi.org/10.18280/ama_a.540104
Received: 
15 March 2017
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Accepted: 
15 April 2017
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OPEN ACCESS

Abstract: 

In this article, a new Lorenz curve model is proposed, and the model is fitted with the given data. Thus the estimates of the parameters and the value of mean squared error(MSE), maximal absolute error(MAS), and mean absolute error(MAE) are got, It can be concluded that the proposed model is better than the classical models. Then an income space method is improved to make up the defects of the classical ones. Finally, the new Lorenz curve model and the improved income space method are applied to analyze the data from Problem E in the National Graduate Mathematical Contest in Modeling in 2013, and some favorable results are got.

Keywords: 

Lorenz curve, Middle income, Income distribution, Gini coefficient

1. Introduction
2. The New Proposed Lorenz Curve Model
3. The Improved Income Space Method
4. Results and Discussion
5. Conclusion
Acknowledgements

This work was supported by the Natural Science Foundation of Hainan Province under grant No.20167251.

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