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Hello, Is there a way to create random numbers that fit a certain specified requirement other than distributional characteristics. In particular, I would like to create simulated income distributions with certain gini coefficient Ryan -- Ryan Murphy 2012 B.A. Economics and Mathematics [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi there, I am trying to compute Gini coefficients for vectors containing income classes. The data I possess look loke this: yit <- c(135, 164, 234, 369) piit <- c(367, 884, 341, 74 ) where yit is the vector of income classes, and fit is the vector of associated frequencies.(This data is from Rustichini, Ichino and Checci (Journal of Public Economics, 1999) ). In ineq pacakge, Gini( )