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Segregation Measurement, Inferential Statistics, and Decomposition Analysis
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adds Multigroup Divergence Index of Roberto (2018) #55

Closed renanxcortes closed 5 years ago

renanxcortes commented 5 years ago

This implements the index presented in Roberto, Elizabeth. "The Divergence Index: A Decomposable Measure of Segregation and Inequality." arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.01167 (2015). The results are similar to the Multigroup Information Theory index.

This is the index used in Roberto, Elizabeth. "The Spatial Proximity and Connectivity Method for Measuring and Analyzing Residential Segregation." Sociological Methodology 48.1 (2018): 182-224.

ps.: the spatial version of it is accomplished by replacing the p_i by "tilde p_i" just as in the network use case.

The formula of the index add in this PR follows:

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