Myers function

Myer's Blended Index

An upgrade over the Whipple index allows analyzing digit's attraction (or repulsion) from 0 to 9.

Myers(data, ...)

Arguments

• data: data.drame. It contains at least two variables: specific ages and population.
• ...: Arguments to be passed to dplyr::select, i.e., age and population, respectively.

Returns

Myers returns a list with two objects:

• Mmat: a data.frame with specific digits index

• MI: the Myer's Blend Index.

Examples

results <- Myers(Panama1990, age, pop)
results$Mmat
results$MI

References

Rdpack::insert_ref(key="Shryock",package="popstudy")

Author(s)

Cesar Gamboa-Sanabria