GiniMulti: A function to compute multigroup Gini index
| GiniMulti | R Documentation |
A function to compute multigroup Gini index
Description
multigroup Gini is a multigroup version of
the Gini index
Usage
GiniMulti(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
The multigroup Gini index value (numeric)
References
Reardon S. F. (1998) Measures of racial diversity and segregation in multigroup and hierarchical structured Populations. Annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Philadelphia
See Also
multigroup indices:
PMulti, GiniMulti,
HMulti, CMulti, RelDivers
Social diversity indices:
HShannon, NShannon,
ISimpson,
Examples
x <- segdata@data[ ,1:2]
GiniMulti(x)
