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Diversity and Ubiquity

Source: R/divubq.R
divubq.Rd

Compute the diversity/diversification and ubiquity (Hidalgo 2009) based on the RCA values.

Usage

divubq(RCAmat, measure = c("diversity", "ubiquity"))

Arguments

RCAmat

An economy-by-product matrix with the RCA values.

measure

A character string specifying the measure to compute:

  1. "diversity": the number of products that an economy produces.

  2. "ubiquity": the number of economies that export that product.

Value

A numeric vector with the measured values.

References

Hidalgo CA (2009). “The Dynamics of Economic Complexity and the Product Space over a 42 year period.” Technical Report CID Working Paper No. 189, Harvard University. https://dash.harvard.edu/handle/1/37366208.