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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.
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Mosler, K. (2002). Volume statistics. In: Multivariate Dispersion, Central Regions, and Depth. Lecture Notes in Statistics, vol 165. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0045-8_7
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