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laeken (version 0.4.2)

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

0.4.2

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Andreas Alfons

Last Published

March 6th, 2013

Functions in laeken (0.4.2)

calibVars

Construct a matrix of binary variables for calibration
thetaLS

Least squares (LS) estimator
incMean

Weighted mean income
gpg

Gender pay (wage) gap.
variance

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

Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
paretoTail

Pareto tail modeling for income distributions
thetaISE

Integrated squared error (ISE) estimator
thetaPDC

Partial density component (PDC) estimator
qsr

Quintile share ratio
paretoScale

Estimate the scale parameter of a Pareto distribution
eqInc

Equivalized disposable income
thetaMoment

Moment estimator
ses

Synthetic SES survey data
replaceTail

Replace observations under a Pareto model
eqSS

Equivalized household size
plot.paretoTail

Diagnostic plot for the Pareto tail model
shrinkOut

Shrink outliers in the Pareto model
thetaQQ

QQ-estimator
weightedQuantile

Weighted quantiles
reweightOut

Reweight outliers in the Pareto model
thetaHill

Hill estimator
laeken-package

Estimation of indicators on social exclusion and poverty
thetaWML

Weighted maximum likelihood estimator
bootVar

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

Fit income distribution models with the Pareto distribution
calibWeights

Calibrate sample weights
incQuintile

Weighted income quintile
incMedian

Weighted median income
eusilc

Synthetic EU-SILC survey data
minAMSE

Weighted asymptotic mean squared error (AMSE) estimator
thetaTM

Trimmed mean estimator
gini

Gini coefficient
paretoQPlot

Pareto quantile plot
meanExcessPlot

Mean excess plot
rmpg

Relative median at-risk-of-poverty gap
arpr

At-risk-of-poverty rate
weightedMean

Weighted mean
arpt

At-risk-of-poverty threshold
weightedMedian

Weighted median