Revisiting das gupta

Refinement and extension of standardization and decomposition

Dados Bibliográficos

ID10967697
AutoresAlbert Chevan (University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 01003, autor correspondente), Michael R Sutherland (0000-0002-8242-4258, University of Massachusetts Amherst), Michael Sutherland (0000-0001-7158-569X, University of Massachusetts Amherst)
Ano2009
Volume46
Fascículo3
Páginas429-449
Data de publicação2009-08-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDemography (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0070-3370 • E-ISSN: 1533-7790
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/dem.0.0060
PMID19771938
OpenAlexW2089605943
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas36
Referências citadas11

Standardization and decomposition are established and widely used demographic techniques for comparing rates and means between groups with differences in composition. The difference in rates and means has heretofore been resolved in terms of the contribution of variables to compositional effects for each variable and an overall rate effect. This study demonstrates that the resolution of differences is attainable at the categorical level for both compositional effects and rate effects. Refinements to Das Gupta’s equations yield a complete decomposition because of the additivity of categorical compositional and rate effects. Other refinements allow the decomposition of polytomous variables. Extensions to the method provide for the decomposition of the standard deviation and the multivariate index of dissimilarity

Additive function · Categorical variable · Decomposition · Econometrics · Extension (predicate logic · Index (typography · Index of dissimilarity · Multivariate statistics · Polytomous Rasch model · Psychometrics · Standard deviation · Statistics · Variable (mathematics · Chemistry · Computer Science · Income, Poverty, and Inequality · Mathematics