DER: Income Polarization Index

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. Bootstrapping is also available.

Version: 1.0
Depends: R (≥ 4.0)
Imports: Rfast, Rfast2, stats
Published: 2025-02-24
DOI: 10.32614/CRAN.package.DER
Author: Michail Tsagris [aut, cre]
Maintainer: Michail Tsagris <mtsagris at uoc.gr>
License: GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)]
NeedsCompilation: no
CRAN checks: DER results

Documentation:

Reference manual: DER.pdf

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Package source: DER_1.0.tar.gz
Windows binaries: r-devel: not available, r-release: not available, r-oldrel: not available
macOS binaries: r-devel (arm64): DER_1.0.tgz, r-release (arm64): DER_1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): DER_1.0.tgz, r-devel (x86_64): DER_1.0.tgz, r-release (x86_64): DER_1.0.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): DER_1.0.tgz

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