classvaries
Classvaries is a theoretical statistic used in social sciences to quantify how the composition of social classes varies within and across groups in hierarchical or multilevel data. The term combines class, referring to socioeconomic or categorical social groups, with varies, signaling heterogeneity in class labels rather than a single numeric outcome. It is not an established metric in standard statistical references, but it appears in methodological discussions and thought experiments about measuring class dynamics.
In its simplest framing, classvaries denotes the degree of heterogeneity of a categorical class variable among
Applications of classvaries include studying how class composition varies within classrooms, neighborhoods, or organizations, and exploring
Limitations include the lack of a standardized definition, which makes cross-study comparability difficult. Results depend on
Related concepts include entropy, Gini impurity, and intra-class correlation for categorical data, as well as methods