Abstract : This Chapter is about the techniques, formal and informal, that are commonly used to give quantitative answers in the field of distributional analysis - covering subjects including inequality, poverty and the modelling of income distributions. It deals with parametric and non-parametric approaches and the way in which imperfections in data may be handled in practice.
Frank A. Cowell, Emmanuel Flachaire. Statistical Methods for Distributional Analysis. Atkinson, A.B. and Bourguignon, F. Handbook of Income Distribution, 2A, Ch.6, Elsevier, pp.359--465, 2015, 978-0-444-59430-3. ⟨hal-01457398⟩