Wednesday, March 23, 2011

Lorenz Curve

A Lorenz Curve (also known as an Accumulation Plot) shows actual distribution of the data vs. the equal distribution of the data.

This graph shows the distribution of incomes, and the curve shows the difference between the actual distribution and the equal distribution of incomes.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Economics_Gini_coefficient2.svg

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