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Gini coefficient (concentration of a non-negative distribution)

Source: R/frns_metrics.R
morie_fairness_gini.Rd

Ranges from 0 (perfect equality) to nearly 1 (one unit holds everything). Applied to risk scores or stop counts, it measures how unequally a predictive system concentrates its attention. When group is supplied, per-group Gini values are also reported.

Usage

morie_fairness_gini(values, group = NULL)

Arguments

values

Vector of non-negative quantities.

group

Optional protected-attribute vector for a per-group breakdown.

Value

A morie_fairness_result; headline value is the overall Gini.

Examples

morie_fairness_gini(c(5, 5, 5, 5))$value
#> [1] 0
morie_fairness_gini(c(0, 0, 0, 100))$value
#> [1] 0.75