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What is a Gini?

What is a Gini?

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Matt Nolan
Jul 21, 2014
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Everywhere we turn nowadays people are talking about Ginis.  And sadly, they are not misspelling Genie, they are talking about Gini coefficients.

The reason for this interest in Gini coefficient stems from the fact they are used to measure "inequality" in an income distribution - with books such as the Spirit Level made hay discussing the relationship be…

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