Statistical Inference in the Measurement of Poverty
为加性贫困指数提供了无分布假设的渐近置信区间和统计推断方法，并用科特迪瓦1985年生活标准调查数据分析了该国的贫困状况。
Several poverty indices have been suggested to measure the intensity of poverty suffered by those below the poverty line. Because the indices are estimated on the basis of sample observations, we need to test whether the observed differences in their values are statistically significant. This paper provides distribution-free asymptotic confidence intervals and statistical inference for additive poverty indices. The methodology developed in the paper is applied to analyze poverty in Cote d'Ivoire from the data of the Living Standards Survey, 1985. Copyright 1993 by MIT Press.