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laeken (version 0.4.3)

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

0.4.3

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Andreas Alfons

Last Published

March 7th, 2013

Functions in laeken (0.4.3)

eqInc

Equivalized disposable income
paretoScale

Estimate the scale parameter of a Pareto distribution
incMedian

Weighted median income
plot.paretoTail

Diagnostic plot for the Pareto tail model
gini

Gini coefficient
thetaMoment

Moment estimator
thetaISE

Integrated squared error (ISE) estimator
incQuintile

Weighted income quintile
calibWeights

Calibrate sample weights
arpr

At-risk-of-poverty rate
eqSS

Equivalized household size
thetaPDC

Partial density component (PDC) estimator
laeken-package

Estimation of indicators on social exclusion and poverty
weightedMedian

Weighted median
qsr

Quintile share ratio
ses

Synthetic SES survey data
thetaWML

Weighted maximum likelihood estimator
thetaHill

Hill estimator
utils

Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
bootVar

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

Weighted asymptotic mean squared error (AMSE) estimator
paretoQPlot

Pareto quantile plot
shrinkOut

Shrink outliers in the Pareto model
thetaTM

Trimmed mean estimator
thetaQQ

QQ-estimator
arpt

At-risk-of-poverty threshold
weightedQuantile

Weighted quantiles
fitPareto

Fit income distribution models with the Pareto distribution
weightedMean

Weighted mean
reweightOut

Reweight outliers in the Pareto model
calibVars

Construct a matrix of binary variables for calibration
rmpg

Relative median at-risk-of-poverty gap
variance

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

Weighted mean income
eusilc

Synthetic EU-SILC survey data
meanExcessPlot

Mean excess plot
paretoTail

Pareto tail modeling for income distributions
gpg

Gender pay (wage) gap.
replaceTail

Replace observations under a Pareto model
thetaLS

Least squares (LS) estimator