Draw Lorenz curve

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Begin micro-behaviour:

Begin description:

I draw a Lorenz curve and compute the Gini coefficient.

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Draw Lorenz curve

Begin NetLogo code:

do-after-setup    [do-every 1        [let population count all-individuals         if population <= 2 [stop]         set-current-plot "Wealth Distribution"         auto-plot-off         create-temporary-plot-pen "Lorenz pen"         set-current-plot-pen "Lorenz pen"         ; draw the perfectly equitable distribution first         set-plot-pen-color 0         set-plot-x-range 0 100         set-plot-y-range 0 100         plot-pen-up         plotxy 0 0         plot-pen-down         plotxy 100 100         plotxy 0 0         set-plot-pen-color round time mod 145         let individuals-by-wealth             sort-on [my-sugar] all-individuals         let total-wealth sum [my-sugar] of all-individuals         let one-percent-of-the-population population / 100         let percent-of-population 0         let gini-coefficient 0         while [percent-of-population < 100]               [let agents-in-percent-of-population                    sublist individuals-by-wealth                            0 round (percent-of-population * one-percent-of-the-population)                let wealth-of-percent-of-population 0                forEach agents-in-percent-of-population                   [set wealth-of-percent-of-population                        wealth-of-percent-of-population + [my-sugar] of ?]                    let percent-of-wealth wealth-of-percent-of-population * 100 / total-wealth                    set gini-coefficient gini-coefficient +                                         percent-of-population - percent-of-wealth                    plotxy percent-of-population                           percent-of-wealth                    set percent-of-population percent-of-population + 1]         set my-gini-coefficient gini-coefficient / 5050]]

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Variants

How this works

After drawing the black diagonal line representing the equitable distribution it then picks a new pen colour and draws the Lorenz curve. It does this by sorting all the individuals by wealth (sugar) and computing what percentage of the total that each percentile of the poorer individuals posses. While doing this it also computes the Gini coefficient by approximating it by summing the 100 rectangles between the Lorenz curve and the equitable distribution and dividing that by the area under the diagonal line (which is the sum of 1, 2, 3, ..., 98, 99, 100 or 5050).

Related micro-behaviours

This expects CREATE-EMPTY-LORENZ-CURVE has been added to create the surface this draws upon.

History

This was implemented by Ken Kahn. Last updated on 27 June 2012.

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