DER: Income Polarization Index

Extremely fast and memory efficient computation of the DER (or PaF) income polarization index as proposed by Duclos J. Y., Esteban, J. and Ray D. (2004). "Polarization: concepts, measurement, estimation". Econometrica, 72(6): 1737--1772. <doi:10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00552.x>. The index may be computed for a single or for a range of values of the alpha-parameter and bootstrapping is also available.

Package details

AuthorMichail Tsagris [aut, cre], Christos Adam [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3244-7034>)
MaintainerMichail Tsagris <mtsagris@uoc.gr>
LicenseGPL (>= 2)
Version1.3
Package repositoryView on CRAN
Installation Install the latest version of this package by entering the following in R:
install.packages("DER")

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