Descriptive statistical method
– for analysing the amalgamation of Dansih municipalities
Ravn-Jonsen, Lars
Working paper, July 2005
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The object of the paper is to explain some descriptive statistical methods usable to analyse the distributional consequences of the coming merger among Danish municipalities. The methods used are box plots and calculation of the expected mean error, average and gini-coefficients as expressed in some test numbers.



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