DMulti: A function to compute multi-group dissimilarity index

In OasisR: Outright Tool for the Analysis of Spatial Inequalities and Segregation

A function to compute multi-group dissimilarity index

Description

Multi-group dissimilarity index, is a multi-group version of Duncan's dissimilarity index (DIDuncan)

Usage

DMulti(x)

Arguments

x

- an object of class matrix (or which can be coerced to that class), where each column represents the distribution of a group within spatial units. The number of columns should be greater than 1 (at least 2 groups are required). You should not include a column with total population, because this will be interpreted as a group.

Value

multi-group dissimilarity index

References

Sakoda J. N. (1981) A generalized Index of dissimilarity. Demography,18, 245-250

See Also

Multi-group indices: PMulti, GiniMulti, HMulti, CMulti, RelDivers

Social diversity indices: HShannon, NShannon, ISimpson,

Examples

x <- segdata@data[ ,1:2]
DMulti(x) 

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