inequality {BasketballAnalyzeR}

Inequality analysis

Description

Inequality analysis

Usage

inequality(data, nplayers)

Arguments

data

numeric vector containing the achievements (e.g. scored points) of the players whose inequality has to be analyzed.

nplayers

integer, number of players to include in the analysis (ranked in nondecreasing order according to the values in data).

Value

A list with the following elements: Lorenz (cumulative distributions used to plot the Lorenz curve) and Gini (Gini coefficient).

Author(s)

Marco Sandri, Paola Zuccolotto, Marica Manisera ([e-mail])

References

P. Zuccolotto and M. Manisera (2020) Basketball Data Science: With Applications in R. CRC Press.

See Also

plot.inequality

Examples

Pbox.BN <- subset(Pbox, Team=="Brooklyn Nets")
out <- inequality(Pbox.BN$PTS, nplayers=8)
print(out)
plot(out)