RGKO: Functional form of Lorenz curve : Rasche et al. (1980)

In EnoraBelz/Inequality: Estimation of Inequality Measures from Quantile Data

Description

Functional form of Lorenz curve : Rasche et al. (1980)

Usage

RGKO(p, a, b)

Arguments

p	numeric, vector of probabilities
a	numeric, between 0 and 1
b	numeric, greater than 1

Value

The Rasche et al. (1980)'s functional form of Lorenz curve at the point p

L(p) = (1- (1-p)^a)^b

where b ≥ 1 and 0 ≤ a ≤ 1.

References

Rasche et al. (1980), Functional forms for estimating the Lorenz curve: comment

See Also

KP, Arnold, Ortega, Chotikapanich, Sarabia, Rohde

Examples

RGKO(0.5, 0.7, 1.5)
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