gini-ss
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compute Gini coefficient with small sample correction
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gini-ss
Compute the gini coefficient of the numeric data, with small sample correction.
var giniSS = require('gini-ss');
giniSS([0,0,0,0,1]) // --> 1.0
giniSS([0,0,0]) // --> 0.0
giniSS([3,3,3]) // --> 0.0
giniSS([1,2,3,...,100]) // --> ~ 99/303 ~ 1/3Small Sample Correction
The Gini coefficient with small sample correction has a value of 1.0 for the case of perfect inequality, when
for example, with income data, all of the incomes are zero and one person has all the income.
The traditional Gini instead yields G = 1-(1/n) = (n-1)/n. The correction is simply multiplying by n/(n-1)
These converge as the number of samples n become large.
Background
For more information, see the Wikipedia article for Gini coefficient
Copyright
Copyright 2017 Paul Brewer, Economic and Financial Technology Consulting LLC