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In statistics and econometrics, the mean log deviation (MLD) is a measure of income inequality. The MLD is zero when everyone has the same income, and takes on larger positive values as incomes become more unequal, especially at the high end. == Definition == The MLD of household income has been defined as〔Jonathan Haughton and Shahidur R. Khandker. 2009. ''The Handbook on Poverty and Inequality''. Washington, DC: The World Bank.〕 : where N is the number of households, is the income of household ''i'', and is the mean of . Naturally the same formula can be used for positive variables other than income and for units of observation other than households. Equivalent definitions are : where is the mean of ln(''x''). The last definition shows that MLD is nonnegative, since by Jensen's inequality. MLD has been called "the standard deviation of ln(''x'')",〔 but this is not correct. The standard deviation of ln(''x'') would be : E.g., for the standard lognormal distribution, MLD = 1/2 but SDL = 1. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア(Wikipedia)』 ■ウィキペディアで「Mean log deviation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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