1st Edition
Statistical Studies of Income, Poverty and Inequality in Europe Computing and Graphics in R using EU-SILC
By Nicholas T. Longford
Copyright 2015
376 Pages
81 B/W Illustrations
by
Chapman & Hall
375 Pages
81 B/W Illustrations
by
Chapman & Hall
375 Pages
by
Chapman & Hall
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There is no shortage of incentives to study and reduce poverty in our societies. Poverty is studied in economics and political sciences, and population surveys are an important source of information about it. The design and analysis of such surveys is principally a statistical subject matter and the computer is essential for their data compilation and processing. Focusing on The European... Read more
Poverty Rate. Statistical Background. Poverty Indices. Mixtures of Distributions. Regions. Transitions. Multivariate Mixtures. Social Transfers. Causes and Effects. Education and Income. Epilogue. Bibliography. Subject Index. Index of User-Defined R Functions.
Biography
Nicholas T. Longford is Director of SNTL Statistics Research and Consulting and Academic Visitor at Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona, Spain. His previous appointments include Educational Testing Service, Princeton, NJ, U.S.A., and De Montfort University, Leicester, U.K.
