RT Journal Article
T1 mutualinf: An R Package for Computing and   Decomposing the Mutual Information Index of Segregation
A1 Fuentealba-Chaura, Rafael
A1 Guinea Martín, Daniel
A1 Mora, Ricardo
A1 Rojas-Mora, Julio
K1 Segregación - Chile - Análisis
AB In this article, we present the R package mutualinf for computing and decomposing the mutual information index of segregation by means of recursion and parallelization techniques. The mutual information index is the only multigroup index of segregation that satisfies strong decompos- ability properties, both for organizational units and groups. The mutualinf package contributes by (1) implementing the decomposition of the mutual information index into a “between” and a “within” term; (2) computing, in a single call, a chain of decompositions that involve one “between” term and several “within” terms; (3) providing the contributions of the variables that define the groups or the organizational units to the overall segregation; and (4) providing the demographic weights and local indexes employed in the computation of the “within” term. We illustrate the use of mutualinf using Chilean school enrollment data. With these data, we study socioeconomic and ethnic segregation in schools.
PB The R Foundation
YR 2023
FD 2023-11
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29087
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/29087
LA eng
NO Fuentealba-Chaura, et al., "mutualinf: An R Package for Computing and Decomposing the Mutual Information Index of Segregation", The R Journal, 2023. Vol. 15, nº2, p. 77-88
NO Rafael Fuentealba-Chaura and Julio Rojas-Mora acknowledge the financial support by the FONDE-CYT/ANID Project 11170583. Ricardo Mora and Daniel Guinea-Martin acknowledge the financialsupport of MCIN/AEI/10.13039/501100011033 (Project no. PID2019-108576RB-I00). Cluster time wasprovided by the UCT VIP Project FEQUIP2019-INRN-03.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026