KOBAYASHI GENYA
   Department   Undergraduate School  , School of Commerce
   Position   Professor
Language English
Publication Date 2020/05
Type Academic Journal
Peer Review Peer reviewed
Title Estimation and inference for area-wise spatial income distributions from grouped data
Contribution Type Co-authored (other than first author)
Journal Computational Statistics & Data Analysis
Journal TypeAnother Country
Publisher Elsevier BV
Volume, Issue, Page 145,pp.106904-106904
Author and coauthor Shonosuke Sugasawa, Genya Kobayashi, Yuki Kawakubo
Details Estimating income distributions plays an important role in the measurement of inequality and poverty over space. The existing literature on income distributions predominantly focuses on estimating an income distribution for a country or a region separately and the simultaneous estimation of multiple income distributions has not been discussed in spite of its practical importance. To overcome the difficulty, effective methods are proposed for the simultaneous estimation and inference for area-wise spatial income distributions taking account of geographical information from grouped data. An efficient Bayesian approach to estimation and inference for area-wise latent parameters are developed, which gives area-wise summary measures of income distributions such as mean incomes and Gini indices, not only for sampled areas but also for areas without any samples thanks to the latent spatial state-space structure.
DOI 10.1016/j.csda.2019.106904
ISSN 0167-9473