US_income | R Documentation |
Data such as these are used to study income inequality. One measure of this is the "Gini coefficient," which can be estimated from a Lorenz function fitted to such data.
US_income
An object of class tbl_df
(inherits from tbl
, data.frame
) with 6 rows and 2 columns.
La Haye and Zizler (2021) "The Lorenz Curve in the Classroom", The American Statistician, 75(2):217-225]
Variables:
income
The fraction of total household income that goes to the corresponding
poorest fraction of the population.
pop
The fraction of the population whose aggregated income is reported
as the income
value.
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