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I have a data set that contains income data and a group identifier. Sort of like: DATA Group,Income A,2300 B,6776 A,6668 A,6768 B,9879 C,5577 A,7867 (etc),(etc) I am trying to compute the gini coefficient for each group. I have tried the following and none seem to do the trick: 1) attach(DATA) by(DATA, group, function(x) gini(income)) 2) attach(data) tapply(income, group,

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( )

Hello, Is there a way to create random numbers that fit a certain specified requirement other than distributional characteristics. In particular, I would like to create simulated income distributions with certain gini coefficient Ryan -- Ryan Murphy 2012 B.A. Economics and Mathematics [[alternative HTML version deleted]]

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",

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

Hi all, I apologies in advance if I am missing something very simple here, but since I failed at resolving this myself, I'm sending this question to the list. I would appreciate any help in understanding how the rpart function is (exactly) computing the "improve" (which is given in fit$split), and how it differs when using the split='information' vs split='gini'

Hi listers, Does it necessary to install any package in order to use the GINI or INEQ functions. If I use the following command the R tells me that didn't find the GINI function. x<-c(541, 1463, 2445, 3438, 4437, 5401, 6392, 8304, 11904, 22261) G<-gini(x) Thanks in advance, Marcio -- View this message in context:

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

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,

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:

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]]

Friends, I have noticed that many publications that use RF report variable importance as a function of mean decrease in accuracy rather than mean decrease in gini. Am I correct that the mean decrease in accuracy is just the mean decrease in gini divided by 100? Thanks, Helen Mills Poulos Yale School of Forestry

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've a question about the RandomForest package. The package allows the extraction of a variable importance measure. As far as I could see from the documentation, the computation is based on the Gini index. Do you know if this extraction can be also based on other criteria? In particular, I'm interested in the info gain criterion. Best regards, Chris --

Dear all R users, I am building a Cox PH model on a small dataset. I am wondering how to measure the predictive power of my cox model? Normally the ROC curve or Gini value are used in logistic regression model. Is there any similar measurement suitable for Cox model? Also if I use C-index statistic to measure the predictive power, is it a time-dependent value (i.e. do I need to calculate it for

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

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 netters, I want to learn a decision tree from a series of instances (learning data). The packages tree or rpart can do this quite well, but the scoring functions (splitting criteria) are fixed in these packages, like gini or something. However, I'm going to use another scoring function. At first I wanna modify the R code of tree or rpart and put my own scoring function in. But it