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laeken (version 0.4.6)

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

0.4.6

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Andreas Alfons

Last Published

August 19th, 2014

Functions in laeken (0.4.6)

eqInc

Equivalized disposable income
calibWeights

Calibrate sample weights
fitPareto

Fit income distribution models with the Pareto distribution
paretoTail

Pareto tail modeling for income distributions
thetaISE

Integrated squared error (ISE) estimator
thetaWML

Weighted maximum likelihood estimator
shrinkOut

Shrink outliers in the Pareto model
eusilc

Synthetic EU-SILC survey data
prop

Proportion of an alternative distribution
arpr

At-risk-of-poverty rate
thetaQQ

QQ-estimator
meanExcessPlot

Mean excess plot
paretoScale

Estimate the scale parameter of a Pareto distribution
qsr

Quintile share ratio
incMean

Weighted mean income
weightedMedian

Weighted median
weightedQuantile

Weighted quantiles
gpg

Gender pay (wage) gap.
variance

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

Synthetic SES survey data
thetaTM

Trimmed mean estimator
thetaHill

Hill estimator
replaceTail

Replace observations under a Pareto model
bootVar

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

Partial density component (PDC) estimator
incMedian

Weighted median income
eqSS

Equivalized household size
minAMSE

Weighted asymptotic mean squared error (AMSE) estimator
rmpg

Relative median at-risk-of-poverty gap
gini

Gini coefficient
utils

Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
arpt

At-risk-of-poverty threshold
reweightOut

Reweight outliers in the Pareto model
thetaLS

Least squares (LS) estimator
laeken-package

Estimation of indicators on social exclusion and poverty
thetaMoment

Moment estimator
calibVars

Construct a matrix of binary variables for calibration
plot.paretoTail

Diagnostic plot for the Pareto tail model
weightedMean

Weighted mean
incQuintile

Weighted income quintile
paretoQPlot

Pareto quantile plot