Essays about: "Pareto sample"

Found 2 essays containing the words Pareto sample.

1. 1. Wealth Inequality and Mobility - Evidence from the Forbes World Billionaires List

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionen

   Author : Sebastian Schmidt; [2017]
   Keywords : wealth inequality; wealth mobility; Pareto distribution; power law estimation; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The paper analyses data from the “Forbes World Billionaires List” from 1996 to 2015. Decomposing the sample finds, that inherited wealth exhibits higher levels of inequality than self-made wealth. Overall inequality decreases and the inequality level of the self-made subgroup converges to the one of inherited wealth. READ MORE

3. 2. Multi-Objective Optimization of Voyage Plans for Ships

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för reglerteknik

   Author : Waqar Hameed; [2015]
   Keywords : voyage plan; Pareto sample; direction method; multi-objective optimization; grid search; DIRECT; Lipschitzian optimization; Technology and Engineering;

   Abstract : In this thesis two methods are investigated to solve a multi-objective optimization problem for voyage planning. The first method, grid search, is a brute force search in a three-dimensional graph while the other uses the Lipschitzian algorithm DIRECT to do a continuous search along a nominal route. READ MORE