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Example data from Figure III of Echenique and Fryer (2006)

Source: R/EF3.R
EF3.Rd

Artificial example data from Echenique & Fryer (2006) Figure III representing a city with black and white neighbourhoods.

Usage

EF3

Format

Object of class "igraph". An undirected network with vertex attributes:

  • name -- vertex names of the form "A1" in which letter and number indicate the position in the lattice

  • race -- values 1 or 2 indicate the two groups

Source

Echenique, Federico and Roland G. Fryer, Jr. (2006) "A Measure of Segregation Based On Social Interactions" Quarterly Journal of Economics CXXII(2):441-485

Details

This data is taken from Echenique & Fryer (2006, figure III). The data represent a fictional city composed of 30 neighborhoods that are either black or white.

Examples

if(requireNamespace("igraph", quietly = TRUE)) {
  set.seed(1)
  plot(
    EF3,
    layout = igraph::layout.fruchterman.reingold,
    vertex.color = igraph::V(EF3)$type+1,
    vertex.label.family = "",
    sub = "Source: Echenique & Fryer (2006)",
    main = "Neighborhood racial segregation\n in a fictional city"
  )
}