The most popular general univariate polarization indexes for discrete and continuous variables are extended and combined to describe the extent of polarization between agents in a distribution defined over a collection of many discrete and continuous agent characteristics. A formula for the...

This paper develops methodology for nonparametric estimation of a polarization measure due to Anderson (2004) and Anderson, Ge, and Leo (2006) based on kernel estimation techniques. We give the asymptotic distribution theory of our estimator, which in some cases is nonstandard due to a boundary...

1. Measuring the Wellbeing of Groups -- 2. Statistical Matters -- 3. Complete Orderings: Index Types and the Ambiguity Problem -- 4. Partial Orderings -- 5. Comparing Latent Subgroups -- 6. Ambiguity Comparability Segmentation and All That -- 7. Some Applications