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Statistics Slam Dunk
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Statistics Slam Dunk

by Gary Sutton
January 2024
Beginner
672 pages
18h 58m
English
Manning Publications
Content preview from Statistics Slam Dunk

12 Computing and plotting inequality

This chapter covers

  • Computing and understanding Gini coefficients
  • Creating and interpreting Lorenz curves
  • Performing significance testing
  • Conducting effect size testing

Social scientists, economists, philosophers, and others have claimed for many years that income inequality exacerbates crime and other social ills. This is why, they say, taxation, income redistribution, and other state-level corrective actions aren’t zero-sum, but critical for the common good. An equal society is a prosperous society, and an unequal society is a declining society.

How might this idea translate to the NBA? The NBA is a remarkably unequal “society” in that most of the money paid out in salaries is distributed to just a few ...

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