Looking at the help pages in the ineq package, the Theil() function
simply returns the value of the index. You can look at the source code
of the relevant functions to see what they actually compute:
library('ineq')
ineq # the main function
Theil# for the Theil index
Neither function is l
I came across the package 'ineq' that computes a variety of inequality measures
(e.g. gini, theil etc). I want to compute the Theil index (racial segregation)
and decompose the total into sub-components (by geog levels). I think the
package doesn't report the decomposition (correct me if I'm wro
2 matches
Mail list logo
