Sentence examples for segregation measure from inspiring English sources
They believe this study to be the first examination of environmental health disparities to use a generalized multiethnic segregation measure.
The segregation measure is defined as the fraction of RGCs where the nearest neighbor is the same color.
To our knowledge, our analysis is the only study to use a generalized multiethnic segregation measure for the evaluation of environmental health disparities.
Nationally, there has been a slight drop in black-white segregation, measured by indexes sociologists use.
However, it is still logical to employ GIS technology to compute spatial segregation measures.
Mixing the population from "good" and "bad" neighborhoods would indeed decrease the segregation measures and negative neighborhood effects.
At the national level, segregation measured by the dissimilarity index slightly decreased from 0.41 to 0.37 between 2001 and 2008.
This paper describes a recent effort to implement a set of spatial segregation measures in a GIS environment.
Future research should continue to optimize neighborhood boundary definitions, while assessing the sensitivity of segregation measures to changes in scale, to improve our understanding of segregation impacts on racial disparities in low birth weight.
