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laeken (version 0.5.3)

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

0.5.3

License

GPL (>= 2)

Maintainer

Andreas Alfons

Last Published

January 25th, 2024

Functions in laeken (0.5.3)

incMedian

Weighted median income
minAMSE

Weighted asymptotic mean squared error (AMSE) estimator
paretoScale

Estimate the scale parameter of a Pareto distribution
laeken-package

tools:::Rd_package_title("laeken")
gpg

Gender pay (wage) gap.
meanExcessPlot

Mean excess plot
incQuintile

Weighted income quintile
incMean

Weighted mean income
paretoQPlot

Pareto quantile plot
paretoTail

Pareto tail modeling for income distributions
thetaISE

Integrated squared error (ISE) estimator
qsr

Quintile share ratio
reweightOut

Reweight outliers in the Pareto model
shrinkOut

Shrink outliers in the Pareto model
thetaHill

Hill estimator
rmpg

Relative median at-risk-of-poverty gap
replaceTail

Replace observations under a Pareto model
prop

Proportion of an alternative distribution
plot.paretoTail

Diagnostic plot for the Pareto tail model
ses

Synthetic SES survey data
thetaMoment

Moment estimator
variance

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

Weighted maximum likelihood estimator
thetaLS

Least squares (LS) estimator
thetaTM

Trimmed mean estimator
thetaQQ

QQ-estimator
weightedMedian

Weighted median
weightedMean

Weighted mean
thetaPDC

Partial density component (PDC) estimator
utils

Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
weightedQuantile

Weighted quantiles
calibWeights

Calibrate sample weights
calibVars

Construct a matrix of binary variables for calibration
bootVar

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

Equivalized household size
gini

Gini coefficient
arpt

At-risk-of-poverty threshold
arpr

At-risk-of-poverty rate
fitPareto

Fit income distribution models with the Pareto distribution
eqInc

Equivalized disposable income
eusilc

Synthetic EU-SILC survey data