gini: Gini Coefficient G
In danielmarcelino/SciencesPo: A Tool Set for Analyzing Political Behavior Data

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Computes the unweighted and weighted Gini index of a distribution.

Gini(x, weights, ...)

## Default S3 method:
Gini(x, weights = rep(1, length = length(x)), ...)

`x`	a data.frame, a matrix-like, or a vector.
`weights`	a vector containing weights for `x`.
`...`	additional arguements (currently ignored)

One might say the Gini is oversensitive to changes in the middle, while undersensitive at the extremes. The G coefficient doesn't capture very explicitly changes in the top 10 inequality research in the past 10 years – or the bottom 40 most poverty lies. The alternative Palma ratio does.

Daniel Marcelino, dmarcelino@live.com.

Simpson, Lorenz, Herfindahl, Rosenbluth, Atkinson..

# generate a vector (of incomes)
x <- c(778, 815, 857, 888, 925, 930, 965, 990, 1012)
# compute Gini coefficient
Gini(x)

# For Gini index: Gini(x)*100

Gini(c(100,0,0,0), c(1,33,33,33))

# Considers this
A <- c(20000, 30000, 40000, 50000, 60000)
B <-  c(9000, 40000, 48000, 48000, 55000)

 Gini(A); Gini(B);