Description Usage Arguments Value Author(s) References See Also Examples
This function computes the Measures of the Generalised Entropy Family for a vector of observations.
1 | entropy(x, alpha = 1)
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x |
a vector of observations. |
alpha |
the parameter for the generalised entropy family of measures, denoted by alpha by Cowell (2000). Note that this parameter notation differs from the notation used in the ineq package. |
returns the entropy measure.
Alexander Sohn
Cowell, F.A. (2000): Measurement of Inequality, in: Atkinson and Bourguignon (eds.), Handbook of Income Distribution, pp. 1-86, Elsevier, Amsterdam.
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