Comparing Behavior of Unbiased and Standard Versions of Popular Indices

Mark Fossett
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Mark Fossett: Texas A&M University, Department of Sociology

Chapter Chapter 16 in New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation, 2017, pp 257-279 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract In the previous chapter I outlined the rationale for unbiased versions of indices of uneven distribution. Additionally, I presented results from analysis of expected group residential distributions under a binomial probability model to establish that the unbiased versions of popular indices have expected values of zero when residential distributions are random. In this chapter I report analyses of the behavior of standard and unbiased versions of indices of uneven distribution to document two things: the potential undesirable impact of bias on the scores of standard versions of indices and the attractive behavior of the scores of unbiased versions of the same indices.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41304-4_16

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