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Over the last decades, Descriptive Statistics has increasingly slipped into a cinderella role, overshadowed by her much more glamorous younger sister Inductive Statistics. Franz Ferschl is one of the few who have had a heart also for cinderella1. In a volume in his honour, therefore, it seems appropriate also to pay some attention to this badly neglected girl.
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Bruckmann, G. (1999). A Note on the Herfindahl Index of Concentration. In: Leopold-Wildburger, U., Feichtinger, G., Kistner, KP. (eds) Modelling and Decisions in Economics. Physica, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-12519-9_7
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