deltaprob function

Mean difference of a discrete random variable

Compute the Gini mean difference of a discrete distribution

deltaprob(prob)

Arguments

• prob: Vector of the probability distribution

Returns

Numeric value of the Gini mean difference of the input probability distribution, computed according to the de Finetti-Paciello formulation.

Examples

prob<-c(0.04,0.04,0.05,0.10,0.21,0.32,0.24)
deltaprob(prob)