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laeken (version 0.3.3)

Estimation of indicators on social exclusion and poverty

Description

Estimation of indicators on social exclusion and poverty, as well as Pareto tail modeling for empirical income distributions.

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install.packages('laeken')

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Version

0.3.3

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Andreas Alfons

Last Published

May 31st, 2012

Functions in laeken (0.3.3)

bootVar

Bootstrap variance and confidence intervals of indicators on social exclusion and poverty
fitPareto

Fit income distribution models with the Pareto distribution
incMean

Weighted mean income
variance

Variance and confidence intervals of indicators on social exclusion and poverty
thetaPDC

Partial density component (PDC) estimator
eqInc

Equivalized disposable income
eqSS

Equivalized household size
meanExcessPlot

Mean excess plot
thetaISE

Integrated squared error (ISE) estimator
reweightOut

Reweight outliers in the Pareto model
paretoScale

Estimate the scale parameter of a Pareto distribution
thetaLS

Least squares (LS) estimator
qsr

Quintile share ratio
thetaWML

Weighted maximum likelihood estimator
laeken-package

Estimation of indicators on social exclusion and poverty
gini

Gini coefficient
rmpg

Relative median at-risk-of-poverty gap
incMedian

Weighted median income
gpg

Gender pay (wage) gap.
thetaTM

Trimmed mean estimator
weightedMedian

Weighted median
calibVars

Construct a matrix of binary variables for calibration
arpr

At-risk-of-poverty rate
incQuintile

Weighted income quintile
weightedQuantile

Weighted quantiles
minAMSE

Weighted asymptotic mean squared error (AMSE) estimator
arpt

At-risk-of-poverty threshold
plot.paretoTail

Diagnostic plot for the Pareto tail model
utils

Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
replaceTail

Replace observations under a Pareto model
calibWeights

Calibrate sample weights
thetaMoment

Moment estimator
paretoTail

Pareto tail modeling for income distributions
paretoQPlot

Pareto quantile plot
weightedMean

Weighted mean
thetaHill

Hill estimator
shrinkOut

Shrink outliers in the Pareto model
thetaQQ

QQ-estimator
eusilc

Synthetic EU-SILC survey data