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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"Dissimilarity Index"”.
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Measuring inequality of opportunity in South Africa
… of the National Income Dynamic Study (NIDS). The dissimilarity index estimates the opportunities that need to be reallocated, for all economically active South Africans to have equal access to employment in spite of their circumstances. Whereas the inequality of economic opportunity index, …
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Sample Collection and DNA Extraction Methods for Environmental DNA Metabarcoding in Headwater Streams
… the two methods. After conducting Jaccard's dissimilarity index and constructing ordination plots using non-metric multidimensional scaling (NMDS), this study was not able to reveal differences in the amount of taxa richness between CTAB and DNeasy, which implied extraction methods may not be …
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Residential segregation of blacks in Virginia cities: assessing socioeconomic factors
… Lynchburg, Roanoke, Norfolk, and Richmond. Three indexes were employed to measure degrees of segregation at the census tract level. These indexes were, dissimilarity, interaction, and isolation. The dissimilarity index is a measure of the evenness of residential distribution of minority members. …
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Establishment of permanent plots and analysis of woody vegetation in the Tennessee River Gorge, Marion and Hamilton Counties, Tennessee
… taxa of each community, Sorensen’s similarity index, the Marczewski-Steinhaus (MS) dissimilarity index, as well as a Hutcheson’s t test on the Shannon diversity, were used to compare each community to its original 1984 description. The Sorensen’s, MS, and Sorensen’s Quantitative (SQ) indices …
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Responsible Spatial Data Science
… data) that values of many measures (e.g., Gini index, dissimilarity index) diminish monotonically with increasing spatial-unit size in a hierarchical space partitioning (e.g., block, block-group, tract), however the ranking based on spatially aggregated measures remain sensitive to the scale of …
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Investigating the United States’ Racial Structure through the Evaluation of Residential Distribution
… has been limited because, I argue, segregation indexes are based on particular racial structures, none of which effectively capture multiple tiered hierarchies. Thus, this paper investigates the contemporary racial structure manifested through residential distribution by comparing computer …