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	Isolation Index	Theil Segregation Index
Domaine	Sociology	Sociology
Famille	Process / pipeline	Process / pipeline
Année d'origine	1954	1971
Auteur d'origine	Wendell Bell (formalization of P* indices)	Henri Theil & Anthony Finizza
Type	Exposure-dimension segregation index	Entropy-based multigroup segregation index
Source fondatrice	Bell, W. (1954). A probability model for the measurement of ecological segregation. Social Forces, 32(4), 357–364.	Theil, H., & Finizza, A. J. (1971). A note on the measurement of racial integration of schools by means of informational concepts. Journal of Mathematical Sociology, 1(2), 187–193.
Alias	P* isolation index, interaction index, exposure index, Bell isolation index	Theil's H, information theory index, entropy segregation index, multigroup entropy index
Apparentées	5	5
Résumé	The isolation index measures the exposure dimension of segregation: the extent to which members of a minority group are exposed only to one another rather than to members of other groups. It answers the question 'what is the own-group share of the typical neighbor (or classmate, or coworker) that a member of the focal group encounters?' Unlike evenness measures, it depends on the relative size of the group as well as its spatial distribution.	Theil's information index, denoted H, is an entropy-based measure of segregation that, unlike the two-group dissimilarity index, handles any number of groups at once. It compares the diversity (entropy) found within each unit to the diversity of the whole population: segregation is high when units are internally homogeneous even though the overall population is diverse. Its defining virtue is exact decomposability across nested levels and across groups.