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>> If everyone in Tajikistan has $5 except the president > That distribution will yield a very high gini coefficient of very close to 1. It yields (n-1)|5-p|/
by thomasahle 6y ago
>> If everyone in Tajikistan has $5 except the president
> That distribution will yield a very high gini coefficient of very close to 1.
It yields (n-1)|5-p|/(2n(5(n-1)+p)) which is about p/(5n+p).
So it depends on whether the president (p) has $10 or $n^2.
- dnautics 6y agoindeed. If everyone in tajikistan has $5 except the president, who has $1, the gini coefficient will be different.