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Hola, paso el mini programita q estoy viendo, lo q me llama la atencion es una parte donde se definen las funciones. Probe primero meter adentro del boots la estadistica a estimar usando directamente gini(varible, pesos) pero no me dejo. Vi q en el ej del manual de boots, siempre define antes la funcion, entonces probe definir antes una funcion haciendo grini<-function(x) {gini(variable,

Hello, I would like to build a Lorenz curve and calculate a Gini coefficient in order to find how much parasites does the top 20% most infected hosts support. Here is my data set: Number of parasites per host: parasites = c(0,1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9,10) Number of hosts associated with each number of parasites given above: hosts = c(18,20,28,19,16,10,3,1,0,0,0) To represent the Lorenz curve: I

If I use the Ineq library and the Gini function in this way: >Gini(c(100,0,0,0)) I obtain the result 0.75 instead of 1 (that is the perfect inequality). I think Gini's formula in Ineq is based on a formula as reported here: http://mathworld.wolfram.com/GiniCoefficient.html but in the case of perfect inequality: x_1=.......=x_n-1 =0 x_n>0 these formula are equal to 1 - 1/n, not to

Hi there, I am trying to compute Gini coefficients for vectors containing income classes. The data I possess look loke this: yit <- c(135, 164, 234, 369) piit <- c(367, 884, 341, 74 ) where yit is the vector of income classes, and fit is the vector of associated frequencies.(This data is from Rustichini, Ichino and Checci (Journal of Public Economics, 1999) ). In ineq pacakge, Gini( )

Dear All, I wish to calculate the Gini index (ineq from same package) and some other indices for the diameter distribution of each plot (df dgtot). dgtot: IDPlot Diameter(cm) 1 4 34.0 2 4 23.0 3 4 38.0 ... 51 5 16.0 52 5 8.0 53 5 9.0 ... 5301 140 25.0 5302 140 12.0 5303 140 7.0 I use: >

Hi. I have some data from a survey w/c include income data. Was not quite sure how to generate the gini index on these data. Jose Ramon Albert Statistical Research and Training Center www.srtc.gov.ph -.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.-.- r-help mailing list -- Read http://www.ci.tuwien.ac.at/~hornik/R/R-FAQ.html Send "info",

Dear All, I have developed a programme the anable the decomposition of the Gini index, it complets tha valuable work of Achim Zeileis, the author of the ineq package. I would like to make it to be part of all R package. How should I proceed. Must I sent it to the the Core developement team ? The proogramme is written in R. Many thanks for your advice, Best regards, Souleymane

Hi, I'm using the ineq package to calculate some concentration measures (Gini, Herfindal, ...) and I was wondering if there's around also a function to calculate standard error on these measures. If not, is anybody aware of where I can find a reference on this point? Thanks. -- ======================================================== Angelo Secchi PGP Key ID:EA280337

Hello, Thank you very much for your help. How can I draw a Lorenz curve with several replications ? Here is an example with 4 replications: hosts=c(23,31,19,10,7,7,3, 39,40,8,3,6,2,2, 47,17,8,10,6,11,1, 30,30,10,0,15,15,0) parasites=rep(seq(from=0,to=6,by=1),4) replications=c(rep(1,7),rep(2,7),rep(3,7),rep(4,7)) test <- cbind(parasites,hosts,replications) Should I

I came across the package 'ineq' that computes a variety of inequality measures (e.g. gini, theil etc). I want to compute the Theil index (racial segregation) and decompose the total into sub-components (by geog levels). I think the package doesn't report the decomposition (correct me if I'm wrong). Just wonder is that available elsewhere? K.

Hey there, I was wondering if someone could tell me if there's a package or command that allows me to compute a GINI coefficient using a vector of weights. Also the coefficient should be bias corrected. Diego Rojas [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hola Ivan gracias por tu ayuda, justo ayer a ultima hora hice una modificacion en el programa q hizo q el programita ande, aunq no entendi porque lo hizo. La modificacion fue agregar "*w" al final de cada parametro en la definicion de la funcion "grini" q habia creado, cosa q deduje de mirar la funcion q le habia robado al ejemplo del manual de boot ratio <- function(d, w)

I have written the following function to calculate the weighted mean difference for univariate data (see http://www.xycoon.com/gini_mean_difference.htm for a related formula). Unsurprisingly, the function is slow (compared to sd or mad) for long vectors. I wonder if there's a way to make the function faster, short of creating an external C function. Thanks very much for your advice. gmd

Dear R users, I'm using the "ineq" package to calculate the values ​​of Gini and Lorenz coefficients and to and plot Lorenz graph. I want to plot on the same diagram, curves from two different populations, that have different "n". How can I do this?   Best regards,   Patricia [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Hi everybody, please, could you give me help ? I scanned the help archives and didn't found hints... I want to solve a large sparse linear system subjected to an inequality constrains (all solutions positive) and an equality constrain (all solutions sum to 1), thus I tried to fool constrOptim using: x[1] + 0 + ... + 0 >= 0 ... 0 + 0 + ... + x[n] >= 0 x[1] + x[2] + ... +

Dear all, I am working with randomForest package and I am interested in examining the "Gini importance" measures that are used as a general indicator of feature relevance. Is there a possibility of getting the Gini measure that is being estimated in each tree by the output of the getTree() function? Thanks a lot, Chrysanthi [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

Dear List, I am unsure if this is specifically a R question or a stats question? I thought i would ask here and if i get no replies it will answer that! I am trying to calculate Gini coefficients in R, based on a slight modification of the typical equation that i have seen in a paper. -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: PastedGraphic-2.pdf Type:

Dear R-users, I'm working with the Rpart package and trying to understand how the procedure select the best split in the case the method "class" and the splitting index "Gini" are used. In particular I'd like to have look to the source code that works out the best split for un unordered predictor. Does anyone can suggest me which functions in the sources I should

Hi, I am using the reldist package and having problems determining the p-value for the entropy value from the reldist function. I am able to properly determine the entropy value, but cannot figure out what function to use to find the p-value. I have tried using rpy, rpluy (which provides p-values for the polarization values) and investing the results from reldist(). Thus, far I cannot find the

Dear useRs, my last announcement is an update of the ineq package for measuring inequality, concentration and poverty. The current version is now 0.2-4. Thanks to suggestions from Rein Halbersma the Pen() function for plotting Pen's parade was improved and now allows for much more flexibility. See the help page for examples. Best wishes, Z ------------- Package: ineq Version: 0.2-4 Date: