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Gini index is widely used in the study of inequality of income distribution. In the present paper we give a definition of the Gini index in the Bivariate set-up and look into the problem of characterizing probability distributions based on some relationship between this index and various other commonly used measures. We also generalized the Gini index to a situation where several attributes of the population are considered.
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Abdul-Sathar, E.I., Suresh, R.P. & Nair, K.R.M. A vector valued bivariate gini index for truncated distributions. Statistical Papers 48, 543–557 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00362-007-0356-1
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