Income Polarization Index

Extremely fast and memory efficient computation of 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. . The index may be computed for a single or for a range of values of the alpha-parameter and bootstrapping is also available.


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install.packages("DER")

1.5 by Michail Tsagris, 6 months ago


Browse source code at https://github.com/cran/DER


Authors: Michail Tsagris [aut, cre] , Christos Adam [aut]


Documentation:   PDF Manual  


GPL (>= 2) license


Imports rangen, Rfast, Rfast2, Rcpp, RcppParallel, stats

Linking to Rcpp, RcppParallel

System requirements: GNU make


See at CRAN