Final Comments
In this study I have shown that popular measures of residential segregation – the dissimilarity index (D), the gini index (G), the separation index (S), Theil’s index (H), and Hutchens’ index (R), a measure closely related to Atkinson’s index (A) – can be
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Mark Fossett
New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation
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Mark Fossett
New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation
Mark Fossett Department of Sociology Texas A&M University College Station, TX, USA
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