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Majorization and the Lorenz Order with Applications in Applied Mathematics and Economics

  • Development and discussion of multivariate Lorenz orderings
  • Historical and up-to-date coverage of families of Lorenz curves
  • Coverage of multivariate inequality measures
  • Detailed discussion of competing multivariate curves and indices
  • Enhanced listing of the wide variety of areas in which the concepts have been applied
  • Designed so instructors can select specific chapters or sections for use in special topics courses and short courses
  • Includes end of chapter exercises

Part of the book series: Statistics for Social and Behavioral Sciences (SSBS)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
  2. Introduction

    • Barry C. Arnold, José María Sarabia
    Pages 1-8
  3. Majorization in \(\mathbb {R}_n^+\)

    • Barry C. Arnold, José María Sarabia
    Pages 9-22
  4. The Lorenz Order in the Space of Distribution Functions

    • Barry C. Arnold, José María Sarabia
    Pages 23-34
  5. Transformations and Their Effects

    • Barry C. Arnold, José María Sarabia
    Pages 35-43
  6. Inequality Measures

    • Barry C. Arnold, José María Sarabia
    Pages 45-114
  7. Families of Lorenz Curves

    • Barry C. Arnold, José María Sarabia
    Pages 115-143
  8. Multivariate Majorization and Multivariate Lorenz Ordering

    • Barry C. Arnold, José María Sarabia
    Pages 145-166
  9. Stochastic Majorization

    • Barry C. Arnold, José María Sarabia
    Pages 167-176
  10. Some Related Orderings

    • Barry C. Arnold, José María Sarabia
    Pages 177-185
  11. Inequality Analysis in Families of Income Distributions

    • Barry C. Arnold, José María Sarabia
    Pages 187-210
  12. Some Applications

    • Barry C. Arnold, José María Sarabia
    Pages 211-230
  13. More Applications

    • Barry C. Arnold, José María Sarabia
    Pages 231-251
  14. Back Matter

    Pages 253-272

About this book

This book was written to serve as a graduate-level textbook for special topics classes in mathematics, statistics, and economics, to introduce these topics to other researchers, and for use in short courses. It is an introduction to the theory of majorization and related notions, and contains detailed material on economic applications of majorization and the Lorenz order, investigating the theoretical aspects of these two interrelated orderings. 

Revising and expanding on an earlier monograph, Majorization and the Lorenz Order: A Brief Introduction, the authors provide a straightforward development and explanation of majorization concepts, addressing historical development of the topics, and providing up-to-date coverage of families of Lorenz curves. The exposition of multivariate Lorenz orderings sets it apart from existing treatments of these topics.


Mathematicians, theoretical statisticians, economists, and other social scientists who already recognize the utility of the Lorenz order in income inequality contexts and arenas will find the book useful for its sound development of relevant concepts rigorously linked to both the majorization literature and the even more extensive body of research on economic applications. 


Barry C. Arnold, PhD, is Distinguished Professor in the Statistics Department at the University of California, Riverside. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, and the Institute of Mathematical Statistics, and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He is the author of more than two hundred publications and eight books.


José María Sarabia, PhD, is Professor of Statistics and Quantitative Methods in Business and Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Cantabria, Spain. He is author of more than one hundred and fifty publications and ten books and is an associate editor of several journals including TESTCommunications in Statistics, and Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of Statistics, University of California, Riverside, USA

    Barry C. Arnold

  • Department of Economics, University of Cantabria, Santander, Spain

    José María Sarabia

About the authors

Barry C. Arnold, PhD, is Distinguished Professor in the Statistics Department at the University of California, Riverside. He is a Fellow of the American Statistical Society, the American Association for the Advancement of Science, the Institute of Mathematical Statistics and is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute. He is the author of more than two hundred publications and eight books.


José María Sarabia, PhD, is Professor of Statistics and Quantitative Methods in Business and Economics in the Department of Economics at the University of Cantabria, Spain. He is author of more than one hundred and fifty publications and ten books and is an associate editor of several journals including TEST, Communications in Statistics, and Journal of Statistical Distributions and Applications




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Softcover Book USD 89.99
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