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: | 1.1 | 
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.0) | 
| Imports: | Rfast, Rfast2, stats | 
| Published: | 2025-05-28 | 
| DOI: | 10.32614/CRAN.package.DER | 
| Author: | Michail Tsagris [aut, cre] | 
| Maintainer: | Michail Tsagris  <mtsagris at uoc.gr> | 
| License: | GPL-2 | GPL-3 [expanded from: GPL (≥ 2)] | 
| NeedsCompilation: | no | 
| CRAN checks: | DER results | 
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