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  <dc:title>Methods for Analyzing Binned Income Data</dc:title>
  <dc:title>R package binequality version 1.0.4</dc:title>
  <dc:description>Methods for model selection, model averaging, and calculating metrics, such as the Gini, Theil, Mean Log Deviation, etc, on binned income data where the topmost bin is right-censored.  We provide both a non-parametric method, termed the bounded midpoint estimator (BME), which assigns cases to their bin midpoints; except for the censored bins, where cases are assigned to an income estimated by fitting a Pareto distribution. Because the usual Pareto estimate can be inaccurate or undefined, especially in small samples, we implement a bounded Pareto estimate that yields much better results.  We also provide a parametric approach, which fits distributions from the generalized beta (GB) family. Because some GB distributions can have poor fit or undefined estimates, we fit 10 GB-family distributions and use multimodel inference to obtain definite estimates from the best-fitting distributions. We also provide binned income data from all United States of America school districts, counties, and states.</dc:description>
  <dc:type>Software</dc:type>
  <dc:relation>Depends: R (&gt;= 2.10), gamlss (&gt;= 4.2.7), gamlss.cens (&gt;= 4.2.7),
gamlss.dist (&gt;= 4.3.0)</dc:relation>
  <dc:relation>Imports: survival (&gt;= 2.37-7), ineq (&gt;= 0.2-11)</dc:relation>
  <dc:creator>Samuel V. Scarpino &lt;s.scarpino@northeastern.edu&gt;</dc:creator>
  <dc:publisher>Comprehensive R Archive Network (CRAN)</dc:publisher>
  <dc:contributor>Samuel V. Scarpino, Paul von Hippel, and Igor Holas</dc:contributor>
  <dc:rights>GPL (&gt;= 3.0)</dc:rights>
  <dc:date>2018-11-05</dc:date>
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  <dc:identifier>https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=binequality</dc:identifier>
  <dc:identifier>doi:10.32614/CRAN.package.binequality</dc:identifier>
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