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By Jacques Silber, Yves Fluckiger, Sean F. Reardon

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The changing geographic distribution of board-certified physicians. New England Journal of Medicine, 303, 1032–1038. Shannon, C. E. (1948). A mathematical theory of communication. Bell System Technical Journal, 27, 379–423 (July), 623–656 (Published in October). Silber, J. (1989). Factor components, population subgroups and the computation of the Gini index of inequality. Review of Economics and Statistics, 71, 107–115. Theil, H. (1972). Statistical decomposition analysis. Amsterdam: North Holland.

1994). Using Gini-style indexes to evaluate the spatial patterns of health practitioners: Theoretical considerations and an application based on Alberta data. Social Science and Medicine, 38, 1243–1256. Chakravarty, S. , & Silber, J. (2007). A generalized index of employment segregation. Mathematical Social Sciences, 53, 185–195. Dawkins, C. (2004). Measuring the spatial pattern of residential segregation. Urban Studies, 41, 833–851. Duncan, O. , & Duncan, B. (1955). A methodological analysis of segregation indexes.

4 The information contained in the joint distribution of ethnic groups and schools is usually summarized by means of numerical indices of segregation. Let X be the set of all cities with G ethnic groups and N schools. A segregation index is a real valued function defined in X, S(X), providing the extent of school segregation for any city X. The concept of segregation used in this paper embraces two views. First, the notion advocated by James and Taeuber (1985), according to which Invariance Properties of Mutual Information Index 37 segregation is seen as the tendency of ethnic groups to have different distributions across schools.

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