Allen, Rebecca; Burgess, Simon; Windmeijer, Frank - Centre for Market and Public Organisation (CMPO), … - 2009
The most widely used measure of segregation is the dissimilarity index, D. It is now well understood that this measure … deviations from randomness. This leads to potentially large values of the segregation index when unit sizes and/or minority … proportions are small, even if there is no underlying systematic segregation. Our response to this is to produce an adjustment to …