{"product_id":"statistical-size-distributions-in-economics-and-actuarial-sciences-9780471150640","title":"Statistical Size Distributions in Economics and Actuarial Sciences","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWith the growth of such fields as financial economics, so has the need for a thorough discussion of statistical size distributions.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Researchers and teachers in econometrics and actuarial statistics will find this book an interesting source of information.\" (\u003ci\u003eJournal of the American Statistical Association\u003c\/i\u003e, December 2004)  \u003cp\u003e\"The overall quality of the book is excellent. The material is well-written and well laid out…an indispensable, authoritative source of information…\" (\u003ci\u003eZentralblatt MATH Database\u003c\/i\u003e)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“…an indispensable, authoritative source of information on a remarkably diverse variety of parametric models for applied statisticians and researchers…” (\u003ci\u003eZentralblatt Math\u003c\/i\u003e, Vol.1044, No.19, 2004)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"As a reference book, it is exceptionally well done, as are all of the projects undertaken by Prof. Kotz…The statistics profession has been greatly enriched by this particular effort.\" (\u003ci\u003eTechnometrics\u003c\/i\u003e, November 2004)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"…the authors have gone a long way towards achieving their ideal that 'a useful book on this subject matter should be interesting.” \u003ci\u003e(Short Book Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e, August 2004)\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e“...traces the numerous statistical models of income distribution for Pareto’s model in the late 19th century to the latest ones.” (\u003ci\u003eQuarterly of Applied Mathematics\u003c\/i\u003e, Vol. LXII, No. 1, March 2004)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePreface.  \u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Introduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.1 Our Aims.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.2 Types of Economic Size Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.3 A Brief Historical Sketch of the Models for Studying Economic Size Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1.4 Stochastic Process Models for Size Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. General Principles.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.1 Some Concepts from Economics.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.2 Hazard Rates, Mean Excess Functions, and Tailweight.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.3 Systems of Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2.4 Generating Systems of Income Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Pareto Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.1 Definitions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.2 History and Genesis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.3 Moments and Other Basic Properties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.4 Characterizations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.5 Lorenz Curve and Inequality Measures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.6 Estimation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.7 Empirical Results.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.8 Stoppa Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.9 Conic Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.10 A \"log-adjusted\" Pareto Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.11 Stable Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3.12 Further Pareto-type Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Lognormal Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.1 Definition.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.2 History and Genesis.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.3 Moments and Other Basic Properties.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.4 Characterizations.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.5 Lorenz Curve and Inequality Measures.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.6 Estimation.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.7 Three-and four-parameter Lognormal Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.8 Multivariate Lognormal Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.9 Empirical Results.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.10 Generalized Lognormal Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.11 An Asymmetric Log-Laplace Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4.12 Related Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Gamma-type Size Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.1 Generalized Gamma Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.2 Gamma Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.3 Log-gamma Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.4 Inverse Gamma (Vinci) Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.5 Weibull Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5.6 Log-Gompertz Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Beta-type Size Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.1 (Generalized) Beta Distribution of the Second Kind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.2 Singh-Maddala Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.3 Dagum Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.4 Fisk (log-logistic) and Lomax Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6.5 (Generalized) Beta Distribution of the First Kind.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Miscellaneous Size Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.1 Benini Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.2 Davis Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.3 Champernowne Distribution.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7.4 Benktander Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix A. Biographies.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.1 Vilfredo Federico Domaso Pareto, Marchese di Parigi.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.2 Rodolfo Benini.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.3 Max Otto Lorenz.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.4 Corrado Gini.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.5 Luigi Amoroso.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.6 Raffaele D’Addario.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.7 Robert Pierre Louis Gibrat.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eA.8 David Gawen Champernowne.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix B. Data on Size Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAppendix C. Size Distributions.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eList of Symbols.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eReferences.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAuthor Index.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eSubject Index.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53515421909335,"sku":"9780471150640","price":142.16,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/statistical-size-distributions-in-economics-and-actuarial-sciences-9780471150640","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}