Compute the Gini coefficient
On 30 Mar 2016, at 02:53, Marine Regis <marine.regis at hotmail.fr> wrote: Hello, I would like to build a Lorenz curve and calculate a Gini coefficient in order to find how much parasites does the top 20% most infected hosts support. Here is my data set: Number of parasites per host: parasites = c(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) Number of hosts associated with each number of parasites given above: hosts = c(18,20,28,19,16,10,3,1,0,0,0) To represent the Lorenz curve: I manually calculated the cumulative percentage of parasites and hosts: cumul_parasites <- cumsum(parasites)/max(cumsum(parasites)) cumul_hosts <- cumsum(hosts)/max(cumsum(hosts)) plot(cumul_hosts, cumul_parasites, type= "l?)
Your values in hosts are frequencies. So you need to calculate cumul_hosts = cumsum(hosts)/sum(hosts) cumul_parasites = cumsum(hosts*parasites)/sum(parasites) The Lorenz curves starts at (0,0), so to draw it, you need to extend these vectors cumul_hosts = c(0,cumul_hosts) cumul_parasites = c(0,cumul_parasites) plot(cumul_hosts,cum9l_parasites,type=?l?) The Gini coefficient can be calculated as library(reldist) gini(parasites,hosts) If you want to check, you can ?recreate? the original data (number of parasited for each host) with num_parasites = rep(parasites,hosts) and gini(num_parasites) will also give you the Gini coefficient you want.
From this Lorenz curve, how can I calculate the Gini coefficient with the function "gini" in R (package reldist) given that the vector "hosts" is not a vector of weights ?
Thank you very much for your help. Have a nice day Marine [[alternative HTML version deleted]]
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