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laeken (version 0.4.0)

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

0.4.0

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Andreas Alfons

Last Published

October 17th, 2012

Functions in laeken (0.4.0)

gpg

Gender pay (wage) gap.
meanExcessPlot

Mean excess plot
arpr

At-risk-of-poverty rate
paretoQPlot

Pareto quantile plot
arpt

At-risk-of-poverty threshold
replaceTail

Replace observations under a Pareto model
thetaWML

Weighted maximum likelihood estimator
eqInc

Equivalized disposable income
minAMSE

Weighted asymptotic mean squared error (AMSE) estimator
qsr

Quintile share ratio
eusilc

Synthetic EU-SILC survey data
reweightOut

Reweight outliers in the Pareto model
variance

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

Fit income distribution models with the Pareto distribution
weightedMedian

Weighted median
weightedMean

Weighted mean
thetaPDC

Partial density component (PDC) estimator
incQuintile

Weighted income quintile
rmpg

Relative median at-risk-of-poverty gap
calibVars

Construct a matrix of binary variables for calibration
incMedian

Weighted median income
thetaMoment

Moment estimator
utils

Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
eqSS

Equivalized household size
thetaTM

Trimmed mean estimator
thetaHill

Hill estimator
calibWeights

Calibrate sample weights
shrinkOut

Shrink outliers in the Pareto model
paretoTail

Pareto tail modeling for income distributions
ses

Synthetic SES survey data
thetaISE

Integrated squared error (ISE) estimator
weightedQuantile

Weighted quantiles
thetaQQ

QQ-estimator
gini

Gini coefficient
incMean

Weighted mean income
plot.paretoTail

Diagnostic plot for the Pareto tail model
laeken-package

Estimation of indicators on social exclusion and poverty
thetaLS

Least squares (LS) estimator
bootVar

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

Estimate the scale parameter of a Pareto distribution