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Book Review of The Gini Methodology: A Primer on a Statistical Methodology

By Shlomo Yitzhaki and Edna Schechtman, Springer Series in Statistics, 2013. pp. 548. ISBN: 978-1-4614-4720-7 (hbk).

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Ka, N., Mussard, S. Book Review of The Gini Methodology: A Primer on a Statistical Methodology . J Econ Inequal 13, 321–324 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10888-014-9277-8

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