NEWS

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laeken 0.5.4

• Added 'URL' and 'BugReports' to DESCRIPTION file to improve discoverability of the GitHub repo.

laeken 0.5.3 (2024-01-25)

• Bugfix in function 'eqInc' if single income components are supplied.
• Updated CITATION file to use 'bibEntry'

laeken 0.5.2 (2021-10-06)

• Added argument 'threshold' to function 'arpr'.
• Fixed DOI's and URL's in documentation.

laeken 0.5.1 (2020-02-05)

• Fixed documentation of 'minAMSE'.

laeken 0.5.0 (2019-01-10)

• Order of factors changed in function 'prop'.
• Bugfixes in computation of weighted quantiles and quintile share ratio to strictly follow Eurostat definitions.
• Package title now in title case.
• Packages 'boot' and 'MASS' are now only Imports instead of Depends.

laeken 0.4.6 (2014-08-19)

• Estimation of a proportion and its variance (class "prop", function 'prop' and related changes).

laeken 0.4.5 (2013-08-18)

• Added references to JSS paper.

laeken 0.4.4 (2013-04-02)

• Updated vignette 'laeken-intro'.
• Updated some help files.

laeken 0.4.3 (2013-03-07)

• Bugfix in 'bootVar' when resampling clusters of observations rather than individuals.

laeken 0.4.2 (2013-03-06)

• Bootstrap variance estimation now contains an argument 'cluster', which allows for resampling clusters of observations rather than individuals.
• Bugfix in 'gpg': arguments 'gender' and 'method' are now passed to 'variance'.
• Updated vignette 'laeken-intro'.

laeken 0.4.1 (2013-02-11)

• Reduced run times of examples for 'bootVar' and 'variance'.
• Functions 'arpt' and 'arpr' can now take a vector of percentages of the weighted median to be used for the at-risk-of-poverty threshold.
• Updated vignette 'laeken-intro'.

laeken 0.4.0 (2012-10-17)

• Added example data 'ses' for the Structure of Earnings Survey.
• Added vignette 'laeken-intro'.
• Minimal changes in 'print' method for indicators.
• Minimal changes in help files and vignettes.
• Removed attributes from variable 'eqIncome' in example data 'eusilc'.
• The level names of argument 'gender' in function 'gpg' can now be any character string. Note: the first level of gender should always correspond to females.

laeken 0.3.3 (2012-05-31)

• New plot method for objects of class "paretoTail".
• Package roxygen2 is now used for documentation.
• Bugfixes in 'paretoQPlot' and 'meanExcessPlot': order of graphical parameters 'pch', 'cex', 'col' and 'bg' for the data points is now preserved.
• Bugfix in 'meanExcessPlot': computation of weighted quantiles no longer throws error.

laeken 0.3.2 (2012-03-19)

• Package is built with flag --resave-data to avoid warning with R 2.15.0.

laeken 0.3.1 (2011-07-25)

• New arguments in function 'paretoScale' for generalizations of Van Kerm's formula.
• Updated author affiliation.

laeken 0.3 (2011-06-06)

• New function 'gpg' for estimating the gender pay (wage) gap.
• Fixed function 'bootVar' for package 'boot' >= 1.3-1.

laeken 0.2.3 (2011-05-10)

• Corrected mistake in formula for weighted Hill estimator in vignette 'laeken-pareto'.

laeken 0.2.2 (2011-04-24)

• New function 'shrinkOut' for Pareto tail modeling to shrink outliers to the theoretical quantile used for outlier detection.

laeken 0.2.1 (2011-03-09)

• Fixed help files for 'meanExcessPlot' and 'paretoQPlot' on Microsoft Windows systems.
• Fixed package reference in vignette 'laeken-variance'.

laeken 0.2 (2011-03-08)

• Functions for fitting a Pareto distribution now have an additional argument 'x0' to specify threshold directly instead of using number of observations 'k' in the tail.
• In the graphical exploration of the data using 'meanExcessPlot' or 'paretoQPlot', sample weights can now be considered and the threshold (scale parameter) can be selected interactively.
• Function 'paretoQPlot' now simply uses logarithmic y-axis to show the labels in the scale of the original values.
• Changed default axis labels in 'paretoQPlot'.
• Sample weights can now be considered when fitting a Pareto distribution using 'thetaHill', 'thetaISE' or 'thetaPDC'.
• New function 'calibVars' for convenient construction of binary variables for calibration.
• New functions 'paretoTail', 'replaceTail', 'replaceOut' and 'reweightOut' for improved methodology for Pareto tail modeling with a common interface.
• Row names of the example data 'eusilc' are now given by 1 to the number of rows.
• New wrapper function 'weightedMean' for the (weighted) mean.
• New function 'paretoScale' for estimating the threshold for Pareto tail modeling.
• Totals for calibrated bootstrap variance are now by default computed from the original data using the Horvitz-Thompson estimator.
• Added package vignettes 'laeken-standard', 'laeken-pareto' and 'laeken-variance'.

laeken 0.1.3 (2010-08-16)

• Minimal changes in help file for 'calibWeights'.

laeken 0.1.2 (2010-08-09)

• Bugfix in 'thetaWML' for bias correction term with weight function based on standardized residuals.

laeken 0.1.1 (2010-06-23)

• Bugfix in 'bootVar' in case of breakdown by year and domain.