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Spatial concentration indices

Source: R/Segregation.R
SpatialConcentration.Rd

Hoover's delta DEL, the absolute concentration ACO and the relative concentration RCO of Massey and Denton (1988), with units ordered by area.

Usage

SpatialConcentration(x, area)

Arguments

x

Units x groups count matrix.

area

Unit areas.

Value

list(DEL, ACO, RCO).

References

Massey, D. S. and Denton, N. A. (1988). Social Forces 67, 281-315.

Examples

SpatialConcentration(rbind(c(10, 0), c(0, 10)), c(1, 3))$DEL
#> [1] 0.75 0.25