Sentence examples for coefficients from inspiring English sources

In America, for example, the Gini coefficients (a measure of inequality in which 1 represents maximum inequality and 0 a perfectly egalitarian society) are 0.78 for wealth and 0.63 for income, but only 0.40 for consumption.

If you fail to pick wealthy parents and want to experience the American dream today, move to Canada.This is no joke: the people of Australia and Canada have twice the social mobility of their counterparts in America and Britain despite having Gini coefficients in the same ballpark.

The biggest exception to the general upward trend is Latin America, long the world's most unequal continent, where Gini coefficients have fallen sharply over the past ten years.

We do so by applying a simple linear transformation on the estimated correlation coefficients so that the highest positive correlation maps to a risk score of 0 and the highest negative correlation maps to 100.

The coefficients in the estimated equation weight automatically the importance of the various factors.

Now you run an article asserting that a woman's sexual preference for manliness may correlate to a country's ranking by Gini coefficients.

Their statistics go back much further than household surveys (in America's case, to 1913).Gini coefficients and the top income share can paint different pictures.

WRITING on Thomas Piketty's new book, Nicolas Goetzmann notes:I think that Piketty missed something which might be important: Capital is mobile, workers are not, and at the end we have this: Gini is reducing on a worldwide basis since 2005.Scott Sumner adds:I also like Goetzmann's comment about global Gini coefficients.

Across the OECD, income inequality as measured by Gini coefficients (which calculate how far an economy is from perfect income equality) rose by roughly 7% from the 1980s to the 2000s.More of the pieIn Britain the share of pre-tax income flowing to the top 1% of earners more than doubled from 1976 to 2007, from 5.9% to 14.6%, and it has risen in other countries too (see chart 2).

For the the same reason, the counties with the highest Gini coefficients in the country are in Puerto Rico.

In the richest 20% of households, only 5% of children are severely underweight, compared with 28% in the poorest 20%—a wider gap than in countries which have higher Gini coefficients.