Statistical studies of income, poverty and inequality in Europe : computing and graphics in R using EU-SILC /: computing and graphics in R using EU-SILC. (2014)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: By Nicholas T. Longford.
• Authors: Longford, Nicholas T, 1955-
• Contents: Poverty Rate; Background; Income distribution; Comparisons; Sampling Weights; Programming Notes Statistical Background; Replications. Fixed and Random; Estimation. Sample Quantities; Sampling Variation. Bootstrap; Horvitz-Thompson Estimator; Fragility of Unbiasedness and Efficiency Poverty Indices; Poverty Index; Relative and log-Poverty Gaps; Lorenz Curve and Gini Coefficient; Scaled Quantiles; Income Inequality. Kernels, Scores and Scaling Mixtures of Distributions; Introduction; Fitting Mixtures; Examples; Improper Component; Components as Clusters; Programming Notes Regions; Introduction; Analysis of Regions; Small-Area Estimation; Using Auxiliary Information; Regions of Spain; Regions of France; Simulations; Programming Notes Transitions; Panel Data; Absolute and Relative Rates of Transition; Substantial Transitions; Partial Scoring of Transitions; Transitions over Several Years; Imputed Patterns; Programming Notes Multivariate Mixtures; Multivariate Normal Distributions; EM Algorithm; Example; Improper Component; Mixture Models for the Countries in EU-SILC; Stability of Income; Confusion and Separation; Programming Notes Social Transfers; The Capacity of Social Transfers; Impact of Social Transfers; Potential and Effectiveness; Nonparametric Regression; The Perils of Indices; Programming Notes Causes and Effects. Education and Income; Background and Motivation; Definitions and Notation; The Missing-Data Perspective; Propensity and Matched Pairs; Application; Programming Notes Epilogue Bibliography Subject Index Index of User-Defined R Functions
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Boca Raton : Chapman & Hall/CRC
• Publication Date: 2014
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 339.2207204; Income distribution -- European Union countries; Poverty -- European Union countries; Equality -- European Union countries; Social sciences -- Research -- Statistical methods; R (Computer program language)
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781466568334
• Related ISBNs: 9781466568327
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