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On the bias of the Gini coefficient estimator for zero-truncated Poisson distributions

Published: April 6, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2504.04518v1

By: Roberto Vila, Helton Saulo

Potential Business Impact:

Fixes unfairness in counting things that happen sometimes.

Business Areas:
A/B Testing Data and Analytics

This paper analyzes the Gini coefficient estimator for zero-truncated Poisson populations, revealing the presence of bias, and provides a mathematical expression for the bias, along with a bias-corrected estimator, which is evaluated using Monte Carlo simulation methods.

Page Count
12 pages

Category
Statistics:
Methodology