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Abstract Details
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Activity Number:
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527
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Type:
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Contributed
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Date/Time:
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Wednesday, August 3, 2011 : 10:30 AM to 12:20 PM
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Sponsor:
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Section on Statistical Consulting
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| Abstract - #302764 |
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Title:
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Where's the Greek? Applying Diversity Indices to Quantify Achieved Curriculum Breadth
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Author(s):
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Eric Nordmoe*+
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Companies:
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Kalamazoo College
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Address:
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1200 Academy St, Kalamazoo, MI, 49006, USA
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Keywords:
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diversity index ;
Shannon's entropy ;
Gini coefficient ;
breadth ;
curriculum
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Abstract:
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Measures of dispersion for categorical variables have frequently been used to assess diversity in populations. In ecological and economic applications, versions of Shannon's entropy and the Gini coefficient have been adopted as important measures of species diversity and economic inequality respectively. This work applies these and other measures to a college transcript analysis to define and quantify the "breadth" of courses completed by undergraduates over a four-year college record. The value of these measures for comparing differences in achieved breadth across subgroups as well as changes over time is illustrated.
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