Estimation of social exclusion indicators from complex surveys: The R package laeken

A Alfons, M Templ - KU Leuven, Faculty of Business and …, 2012 - papers.ssrn.com
Units sampled from nite populations typically come with di fferent inclusion probabilities.
Together with additional preprocessing steps of the raw data, this yields unequal sampling …

Inference by linearization for Zenga's new inequality index: a comparison with the Gini index

M Langel, Y Tillé - Metrika, 2012 - Springer
Zenga's new inequality curve and index are two recent tools for measuring inequality.
Proposed in 2007, they should thus not be mistaken for anterior measures suggested by the …

The quintile share ratio in location analysis

T Drezner, Z Drezner, B Hulliger - European Journal of Operational …, 2014 - Elsevier
Abstract The inequality measure “Quintile Share Ratio”(QSR or sometimes S80/S20) is the
primary income inequality measure in the European Union's set of indicators on social …

Impact of survey quality on composite indicators

R T. Münnich, J Georg Seger - … Accounting, Management and Policy …, 2014 - emerald.com
Purpose–The purpose of this study is to show the importance of adequately considering
quality measures within the use of composite indicators (CIs). Policy support often relies on …

On the influence function of the quintile share ratio

TA Kpanzou - Communications in Statistics-Simulation and …, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
In robust statistics, the influence function was developed as an important measure of
sensitivity of estimators to large values. As a measure of income inequality, the quintile …

[PDF][PDF] Robust multivariate imputation with survey data

B Hulliger, T Schoch - 57th Session of the International Statistical …, 2009 - researchgate.net
Robust Multivariate Imputation with Survey Data Page 1 Robust Multivariate Imputation with
Survey Data Beat Hulliger, Tobias Schoch University of Applied Sciences Northwestern …

Statistical inference for inequality measures based on semi-parametric estimators

TA Kpanzou - 2011 - scholar.sun.ac.za
Measures of inequality, also used as measures of concentration or diversity, are very
popular in economics and especially in measuring the inequality in income or wealth within …

Semi-parametric estimation of inequality measures

TA Kpanzou, T De Wet, A Neethling - South African Statistical …, 2013 - journals.co.za
Measures of inequality are very popular in economics, especially in measuring the
inequality in income or wealth within a population and between populations. In this paper …

Measuring inequality: application of semi-parametric methods to real life data

TA Kpanzou, DE Tertius, GS Lo - African Journal of Applied …, 2017 - projecteuclid.org
A number of methods have been introduced in order to measure the inequality in various
situations such as income and expenditure. In order to curry out statistical inference, one …

[PDF][PDF] Robust Pareto Tail Modeling for the Estimation of Indicators on Social Exclusion using the R Package laeken

A Alfons, M Templ, P Filzmoser, J Holzer - R package version 0.4, 2011 - academia.edu
In this vignette, robust semiparametric estimation of social exclusion indicators using the R
package laeken is discussed. Special emphasis is thereby given to income inequality …