Package: DER
Type: Package
Title: Income Polarization Index
Version: 1.2
Date: 2025-11-04
Authors@R: c(person("Michail", "Tsagris", role = c("aut", "cre"), email = "mtsagris@uoc.gr"),
            person("Christos", "Adam", role = "aut", email = "econp266@econ.soc.uoc.gr",
             comment = c(ORCID = "0009-0003-3244-7034")))
Maintainer: Michail Tsagris <mtsagris@uoc.gr>
Depends: R (>= 4.0)
Imports: Rfast, Rfast2, Rcpp, RcppParallel, stats
LinkingTo: Rcpp, RcppParallel
Encoding: UTF-8
SystemRequirements: GNU make
Description: The DER (or PaF) income polarization index as proposed by Duclos J. Y., Esteban, J. and Ray D. (2004). "Polarization: concepts, measurement, estimation". Econometrica, 72(6): 1737--1772. <doi:10.1111/j.1468-0262.2004.00552.x>. The index may be computed for a single or for a range of values of the alpha-parameter. Bootstrapping is also available.
License: GPL (>= 2)
RoxygenNote: 7.3.3
NeedsCompilation: yes
Packaged: 2025-11-04 15:58:10 UTC; mtsag
Author: Michail Tsagris [aut, cre],
  Christos Adam [aut] (ORCID: <https://orcid.org/0009-0003-3244-7034>)
Repository: CRAN
Date/Publication: 2025-11-05 13:10:12 UTC
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