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Appendix E<br />

Growth Dynamics Data Files<br />

The data referred to in the study <strong>of</strong> the distribution <strong>of</strong> the growth (Chapter<br />

5) is described in Table E.1, <strong>and</strong> located in the directory data/growth<br />

on the DVD. The data is also available online at:<br />

http://www.ict.swin.edu.au/personal/rvasa/<strong>thesis</strong>/data<br />

File Name<br />

desc-stat.txt<br />

norm-test.txt<br />

gini.txt<br />

correl.txt<br />

gini-trend.log<br />

Description<br />

Contains the descriptive statistics for the different<br />

metrics analyzed. Data is in CSV format.<br />

Contains the results <strong>of</strong> the test for normality for<br />

the different metrics analyzed.<br />

Contains the Gini coefficient values (CSV format)<br />

for the different metrics analyzed.<br />

The correlation coefficient values determined between<br />

the various metrics as described in Section<br />

5.4.1.<br />

Log <strong>of</strong> the statistical analysis undertaken in order<br />

to establish the trend in Gini coefficients. The<br />

analysis is outlined in Section 5.3.6, <strong>and</strong> the observations<br />

are described in Section 5.4.7.<br />

Table E.1: Data files used in the study <strong>of</strong> Growth (Chapter 5)<br />

.<br />

The raw metric data is provided as a comma separated values (CSV) file,<br />

<strong>and</strong> the first line <strong>of</strong> the CSV file contains the header. A detailed output<br />

<strong>of</strong> the statistical analysis undertaken is provided as log files generated<br />

directly from Stata (statistical analysis s<strong>of</strong>tware) [259].<br />

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