Analysing Inequalities in Germany A Structured Additive Distributional Regression Approach
This book seeks new perspectives on the growing inequalities that our societies face, putting forward Structured Additive Distributional Regression as a means of statistical analysis that circumvents the common problem of analytical reduction to simple point estimators. This new approach allows the...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cham
Springer International Publishing
2017, 2017
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| Edition: | 1st ed. 2017 |
| Series: | SpringerBriefs in Statistics
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| Collection: | Springer eBooks 2005- - Collection details see MPG.ReNa |
| Summary: | This book seeks new perspectives on the growing inequalities that our societies face, putting forward Structured Additive Distributional Regression as a means of statistical analysis that circumvents the common problem of analytical reduction to simple point estimators. This new approach allows the observed discrepancy between the individuals’ realities and the abstract representation of those realities to be explicitly taken into consideration using the arithmetic mean alone. In turn, the method is applied to the question of economic inequality in Germany |
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| Physical Description: | X, 98 p. 20 illus., 18 illus. in color online resource |
| ISBN: | 9783319653310 |