| IndexOfDissimilarity {fmsb} | R Documentation |
Index of dissimilarity between the 2 age-distributions.
IndexOfDissimilarity(X, Y)
X |
A vector of age-specific standard populations (or percentage) for each age. |
Y |
A vector of age-specific target populations (or percentage) for each age. |
ID |
Index of dissimilarity, which is a half of sum of absolute differences of percentages for each age, where NA is automatically treated as 0. |
Minato Nakazawa minato-nakazawa@people.kobe-u.ac.jp https://minato.sip21c.org/
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Rowland DT (2003) Demographic methods and concepts. Oxford Univ. Press, Oxford.
# Dissimilarities of Japanese population structure were increasing # from 1960-1980 (0.132) to 1980-2000 (0.156). IndexOfDissimilarity(Jpopl$M1980+Jpopl$F1980, Jpopl$M2000+Jpopl$F2000) IndexOfDissimilarity(Jpopl$M1980+Jpopl$F1980, Jpopl$M1960+Jpopl$F1960)