st: RE: WG: Test equalty two Lorenz curves

["Newson, Roger B" <r.newson@imperial.ac.uk>]

It would help if Lucia could give us the reference to Beach and Davidson (1981) in full, so that we could refer to it.

Lucia does not mention whether the 2 Lorenz curves are from 2 independent samples, or for 2 classes of wealth (eg cash and property) for the same sample. And Lucia does not state the motivation for testing the hypothesis that 2 Lorentz curves are equal, or state the alternative hypothesis of interest. However, if the 2 Lorenz curves are from 2 independent samples, and Lucia really wishes to calculate a confidence interval for the difference between the 2 Gini coefficients (defined as the area above the Lorenz curve minus the area below the Lorenz curve), then Lucia should probably use the -somersd- module of the -somersd- package to calculate the 2 subpopulation Gini coefficients, together with the -parmby- and -metaparm- modules of the -parmest- package to save the estimates, standard errors and confidence limits for the 2 subpopulation Gini coefficients and then calculate a confidence interval for the difference between the 2 Gini coefficients.

The -somersd- and -parmest- packages can both be downloaded from SSC using the -ssc- command. An example of the use of -somersd- to calculate Gini coefficients is given in the .pdf manual -somersd.pdf-, distributed as an ancillary file with the -somersd- package, and also in Newson (2006). The -parmest- package (and particularly the -metaparm- module) is described in Newson (2008). Many more references on -parmest- and -somersd- are available for download from my website at
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/

I hope this helps.

Best wishes

Roger


References

Newson R. parmest and extensions. Presented at the 14th UK Stata User Meeting, 8-9 September, 2008. Download presentation from
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/usergp.htm#uk2008

Newson R. Confidence intervals for rank statistics: Somers' D and extensions. The Stata Journal 2006; 6(3): 309-334. Download pre-publication draft from
http://www.imperial.ac.uk/nhli/r.newson/papers.htm#papers_in_journals


Roger B Newson BSc MSc DPhil
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I am forwarding this on behalf of Lucia. She may want to take notice that it
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HTH
Martin

Von: Lucia L [mailto:lucial27@ymail.com] 
Gesendet: Freitag, 31. Juli 2009 11:16
An: martin.weiss1@gmx.de
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Dear Statalist users,
 
I need to test if two Lorenz curves are equal. A possible test is given by
Beach and Davidson (1983).
 
Could anyone help me?
 
L.







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