Estimation of Indicators on Social Exclusion and Poverty

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Documentation for package ‘laeken’ version 0.5.3

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laeken-package	Estimation of Indicators on Social Exclusion and Poverty
arpr	At-risk-of-poverty rate
arpt	At-risk-of-poverty threshold
bootVar	Bootstrap variance and confidence intervals of indicators on social exclusion and poverty
calibVars	Construct a matrix of binary variables for calibration
calibWeights	Calibrate sample weights
eqInc	Equivalized disposable income
eqSS	Equivalized household size
eusilc	Synthetic EU-SILC survey data
fitPareto	Fit income distribution models with the Pareto distribution
gini	Gini coefficient
gpg	Gender pay (wage) gap.
incMean	Weighted mean income
incMedian	Weighted median income
incQuintile	Weighted income quintile
is.arpr	Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
is.gini	Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
is.gpg	Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
is.indicator	Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
is.prop	Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
is.qsr	Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
is.rmpg	Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
laeken	Estimation of Indicators on Social Exclusion and Poverty
meanExcessPlot	Mean excess plot
minAMSE	Weighted asymptotic mean squared error (AMSE) estimator
paretoQPlot	Pareto quantile plot
paretoScale	Estimate the scale parameter of a Pareto distribution
paretoTail	Pareto tail modeling for income distributions
plot.paretoTail	Diagnostic plot for the Pareto tail model
print.arpr	Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
print.indicator	Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
print.minAMSE	Weighted asymptotic mean squared error (AMSE) estimator
print.paretoScale	Estimate the scale parameter of a Pareto distribution
print.paretoTail	Pareto tail modeling for income distributions
print.rmpg	Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
prop	Proportion of an alternative distribution
qsr	Quintile share ratio
replaceOut	Replace observations under a Pareto model
replaceTail	Replace observations under a Pareto model
replaceTail.paretoTail	Replace observations under a Pareto model
reweightOut	Reweight outliers in the Pareto model
reweightOut.paretoTail	Reweight outliers in the Pareto model
rmpg	Relative median at-risk-of-poverty gap
ses	Synthetic SES survey data
shrinkOut	Shrink outliers in the Pareto model
shrinkOut.paretoTail	Shrink outliers in the Pareto model
subset.arpr	Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
subset.indicator	Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
subset.rmpg	Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
thetaHill	Hill estimator
thetaISE	Integrated squared error (ISE) estimator
thetaLS	Least squares (LS) estimator
thetaMoment	Moment estimator
thetaPDC	Partial density component (PDC) estimator
thetaQQ	QQ-estimator
thetaTM	Trimmed mean estimator
thetaWML	Weighted maximum likelihood estimator
utils	Utility functions for indicators on social exclusion and poverty
variance	Variance and confidence intervals of indicators on social exclusion and poverty
weightedMean	Weighted mean
weightedMedian	Weighted median
weightedQuantile	Weighted quantiles