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laeken (version 0.4.1)

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

0.4.1

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Andreas Alfons

Last Published

February 11th, 2013

Functions in laeken (0.4.1)

rmpg

Relative median at-risk-of-poverty gap
minAMSE

Weighted asymptotic mean squared error (AMSE) estimator
weightedQuantile

Weighted quantiles
gpg

Gender pay (wage) gap.
plot.paretoTail

Diagnostic plot for the Pareto tail model
bootVar

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

Shrink outliers in the Pareto model
incQuintile

Weighted income quintile
meanExcessPlot

Mean excess plot
replaceTail

Replace observations under a Pareto model
thetaHill

Hill estimator
qsr

Quintile share ratio
paretoScale

Estimate the scale parameter of a Pareto distribution
fitPareto

Fit income distribution models with the Pareto distribution
thetaQQ

QQ-estimator
paretoQPlot

Pareto quantile plot
arpr

At-risk-of-poverty rate
thetaPDC

Partial density component (PDC) estimator
arpt

At-risk-of-poverty threshold
reweightOut

Reweight outliers in the Pareto model
incMean

Weighted mean income
incMedian

Weighted median income
variance

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

Pareto tail modeling for income distributions
thetaMoment

Moment estimator
calibVars

Construct a matrix of binary variables for calibration
weightedMedian

Weighted median
utils

Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
gini

Gini coefficient
thetaWML

Weighted maximum likelihood estimator
laeken-package

Estimation of indicators on social exclusion and poverty
eusilc

Synthetic EU-SILC survey data
thetaISE

Integrated squared error (ISE) estimator
thetaTM

Trimmed mean estimator
ses

Synthetic SES survey data
weightedMean

Weighted mean
eqInc

Equivalized disposable income
eqSS

Equivalized household size
thetaLS

Least squares (LS) estimator
calibWeights

Calibrate sample weights