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title: 'binequality: Methods for Analyzing Binned Income Data'
version: 1.0.4
doi: 10.1177/0081175015599807
identifiers:
- type: doi
  value: 10.32614/CRAN.package.binequality
abstract: 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.
authors:
- family-names: Scarpino
  given-names: Samuel V.
  email: s.scarpino@northeastern.edu
- family-names: Scarpino
  given-names: Samuel V.
- family-names: Hippel
  given-names: Paul
  name-particle: von
- family-names: Holas
  given-names: Igor
preferred-citation:
  type: article
  title: Robust Estimation of Inequality from Binned Incomes
  authors:
  - family-names: Hippel
    given-names: Paul
    name-particle: von
  - family-names: Scarpino
    given-names: Samuel V.
    email: s.scarpino@northeastern.edu
  - family-names: Holas
    given-names: Igor
  doi: 10.1177/0081175015599807
  year: '2016'
  month: '7'
  publisher:
    name: SAGE Publications
  volume: '46'
  issue: '1'
  journal: Sociological Methodology
  start: '212'
  end: '251'
repository: https://CRAN.R-project.org/package=binequality
date-released: '2018-11-05'
contact:
- family-names: Scarpino
  given-names: Samuel V.
  email: s.scarpino@northeastern.edu