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: | 1.2 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.0) |
| Imports: | Rfast, Rfast2, Rcpp, RcppParallel, stats |
| LinkingTo: | Rcpp, RcppParallel |
| Published: | 2025-11-05 |
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.DER |
| Author: | Michail Tsagris [aut, cre],
Christos Adam 
[aut] |
| Maintainer: | Michail Tsagris <mtsagris at uoc.gr> |
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] |
| NeedsCompilation: | yes |
| SystemRequirements: | GNU make |
| CRAN checks: | DER results |
Documentation:
| Reference manual: | DER.html , DER.pdf |
Downloads:
| Package source: | DER_1.2.tar.gz |
| Windows binaries: | r-devel: DER_1.1.zip, r-release: DER_1.1.zip, r-oldrel: DER_1.1.zip |
| macOS binaries: | r-release (arm64): DER_1.2.tgz, r-oldrel (arm64): DER_1.2.tgz, r-release (x86_64): DER_1.2.tgz, r-oldrel (x86_64): DER_1.2.tgz |
| Old sources: | DER archive |
Linking:
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