DER1.3 package

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. <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 and bootstrapping is also available.

  • Maintainer: Michail Tsagris
  • License: GPL (>= 2)
  • Last published: 2025-11-12