Measurement of Economic Distance Between Blacks and Whites
黑人与白人之间经济差距的测度
This article proposes new distribution-free methods for estimating the economic distance (advantage) between one group and another, especially for interval-to-interval comparisons, which can be more informative than a single aggregative measure. Novel techniques for computing projected quantiles, smoothing of empirical cumulative distribution functions, maximum entropy methods for finding the upper bound of the richest income interval, and statistical confidence intervals…