Publication Date
2019
Journal or Book Title
Entropy
Abstract
This paper is motivated by a distinctive appreciation of the difficulties posed by quantitative observational inquiry into complex social and economic systems. It develops ordinary and piecewise indices of joint and incremental informational association that enable robust approaches to a common problem in social inquiry: grappling with associations between a quantity of interest and two distinct sets of co-variates taking values over large numbers of individuals. The distinct analytical usefulness of these indices is illustrated with their application to inquiry into the systemic economic effects of patterns of discrimination by social identity in the U.S. economy.
DOI
https://doi.org/10.3390/e21040367
Volume
21
Issue
4
License
UMass Amherst Open Access Policy
Creative Commons License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Recommended Citation
dos Santos, Paulo L. and Wiener, Noé, "Indices of Informational Association and Analysis of Complex Socio-Economic Systems" (2019). Entropy. 341.
https://doi.org/10.3390/e21040367