Abstract
The volume of the lift zonoid is a parameter that reflects the dispersion of a distribution. The volume is zero if the distribution concentrates at one point, it increases if the distribution becomes more diverse. For an empirical distribution the lift zonoid volume is easily calculated; it serves as a statistic to describe the dispersion of the data.
Keywords
Convex Hull Random Vector Empirical Distribution Volume Statistic Gini Index
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© Springer Science+Business Media New York 2002