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The concept of segregation is perhaps most easily introduced in the context of the distribution of students of differing ethnicity in the various schools in a particular urban school district. At issue is whether the ethnic distribution of students is different, at times markedly different, from school to school. Mathematically, this corresponds to a question about dependence in a given two-way contingency table. In this paper we describe a suitable segregation ordering and discuss its relationship with a spectrum of segregation measures which have been proposed in the literature.
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Arnold, B.C., Gokhale, D.V. On Segregation: Ordering and Measuring. Sankhya B 76, 141–166 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13571-014-0080-0
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