IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/bla/jamest/v42y1991i7p479-489.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

Transfer principles and a classification of concentration measures

Author

Listed:
  • L. Egghe
  • R. Rousseau

Abstract

In this article we show that the notion of concentration (or inequality) can best be studied by applying a number of transfer principles. We prove this by showing that transfer principles imply other natural concentration requirements such as the principle of nominal increase. We moreover exhibit a relation between Dalton's transfer principle and the Lorenz dominance order. We distinguish between simple and stronger transfer principles, leading to a classification of concentration measures. Finally, it is shown that the coefficient of variation and some measures derived from it are the “ultimate best” ones. © 1991 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

Suggested Citation

  • L. Egghe & R. Rousseau, 1991. "Transfer principles and a classification of concentration measures," Journal of the American Society for Information Science, Association for Information Science & Technology, vol. 42(7), pages 479-489, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:42:y:1991:i:7:p:479-489
    DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199108)42:73.0.CO;2-9
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://doi.org/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199108)42:73.0.CO;2-9
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1002/(SICI)1097-4571(199108)42:73.0.CO;2-9?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Leo Egghe, 2000. "The Distribution of N-Grams," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 47(2), pages 237-252, February.
    2. Qiuju Zhou & Ronald Rousseau & Liying Yang & Ting Yue & Guoliang Yang, 2012. "A general framework for describing diversity within systems and similarity between systems with applications in informetrics," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 93(3), pages 787-812, December.
    3. Leo Egghe & Ronald Rousseau, 2001. "Symmetric and Asymmetric Theory of Relative Concentration and Applications," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 52(2), pages 261-290, October.
    4. Fuyuki Yoshikane & Yutaka Suzuki & Keita Tsuji, 2012. "Analysis of the relationship between citation frequency of patents and diversity of their backward citations for Japanese patents," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 92(3), pages 721-733, September.
    5. Wu, Dengsheng & Yuan, Lili & Li, Ruoyun & Li, Jianping, 2018. "Decomposing inequality in research funding by university-institute sub-group: A three-stage nested Theil index," Journal of Informetrics, Elsevier, vol. 12(4), pages 1312-1326.
    6. Leo Egghe, 2004. "Positive reinforcement and 3-dimensional informetrics," Scientometrics, Springer;Akadémiai Kiadó, vol. 60(3), pages 497-509, August.

    More about this item

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:bla:jamest:v:42:y:1991:i:7:p:479-489. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Wiley Content Delivery (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.asis.org .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.