Myers {popstudy}

Myer's Blended Index

Description

An upgrade over the Whipple index allows analyzing digit's attraction (or repulsion) from 0 to 9.

Usage

Myers(data, ...)

Arguments

data

data.drame. It contains at least two variables: specific ages and population.

...

Arguments to be passed to dplyr::select, i.e., age and population, respectively.

Value

Myers returns a list with two objects:

Mmat

a data.frame with specific digits index

MI

the Myer's Blend Index.

Author(s)

Cesar Gamboa-Sanabria

References

Shryock HS, Siegel JS, Larmon EA, of the Census USB (1980). The Methods and Materials of Demography, number v. 1 in The methods and materials of demography. Department of Commerce, Bureau of the Census. https://books.google.co.cr/books?id=8Oo6AQAAMAAJ.

Examples

results <- Myers(Panama1990, age, pop)
results$Mmat
results$MI