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DER

Income Polarization Index

v1.5 · Mar 29, 2026 · GPL (>= 2)

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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.

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Dependencies Reverse dependencies rangen Rfast Rfast2 Rcpp RcppParallel DER

Version History

updated 1.5 ← 1.3 diff Mar 29, 2026
new 1.3 Mar 10, 2026
updated 1.3 ← 1.2 diff Nov 11, 2025
updated 1.2 ← 1.1 diff Nov 4, 2025
updated 1.1 ← 1.0 diff May 27, 2025
new 1.0 Feb 23, 2025