gini_coeff: Compute Gini coefficient from a numeric vector

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gini_coeffR Documentation

Compute Gini coefficient from a numeric vector

Description

The function computes Gini coefficient from a numeric vector

Usage

gini_coeff(x, unbiased = TRUE)

Arguments

x

A numeric vector with positive values

unbiased

A logical value indicating whether the computed coefficient is biased or not. Unbiased value are equal to n/(n-1) times the biased ones.

Value

A numeric value corresponding to the Gini coefficient of the numeric vector

Author(s)

P. Savary

Examples

x <- c(10, 2, 5, 15)
gini <- gini_coeff(x)

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