Many PaF income polarization indices {DER} | R Documentation |
Many PaF income polarization indices
Description
Many PaF income polarization indices
Usage
colpafs(y, a)
Arguments
y |
A numeric matrix with income data. The PaF index will be computed for each column sperately. |
a |
The value of |
Details
The function compute the PaF index of Duclos, Esteban and Ray (2004) for a specific value of \alpha
, for each column of the matrix.
Value
A matrix, where each row contains the PaF index, the alienation (twice the Gini index) and identification components and 1 + the normalized covariance.
Author(s)
Michail Tsagris.
R implementation and documentation: Michail Tsagris mtsagris@uoc.gr.
References
Duclos J. Y., Esteban, J. and Ray D. (2006). Polarization: concepts, measurement, estimation. In The Social Economics of Poverty (pp. 54–102). Routledge.
Duclos J. Y., Esteban, J. and Ray D. (2004). Polarization: concepts, measurement, estimation. Econometrica, 72(6): 1737–1772.
See Also
Examples
y <- matrix( rgamma(100 * 10, 10, 0.01), ncol = 10 )
colpafs(y, 0.25)