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Corrado Gini

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Corrado Gini (May 23, 1884 - March 13, 1965) was an Italian statistician who developed the Gini coefficient, a measure of the income inequality in a society.


Some publications:

  • Il sesso dal punto di vista statistica: le leggi della produzione dei sessi (1908)
  • Sulla misura della concentrazione e della variabilità dei caratteri (1914)
  • Quelques considérations au sujet de la construction des nombres indices des prix et des questions analogues (1924)
  • Memorie di metodologia statistica. Vol.1: Variabilità e Concentrazione (1955)
  • Memorie di metodologia statistica. Vol.2: Transvariazione (1960)