st: -fastgini- new command to calculate the Gini coefficient with its jackknife standard error is available from SSC

["Zurab Sajaia" <zsajaia@hotmail.com>]

Dear All,

Thanks to Kit Baum, a new command -fastgini- is available from SSC archives.

Within Stata type:

.ssc describe fastgini


-fastgini- calculates the Gini coefficient for either unit-level or 
aggregated level data. Optionally it returns the jackknife estimates of the 
standard error.
-fastgini- uses a fast optimized algorithm that could be especially useful 
when calculating the Gini coefficient and it's standard errors for the large 
samples.  The command implements algorithms for both exact and approximate 
calculation of the Gini coefficient.

Hope you'll find it useful,
Zurab

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