Estimation of social exclusion indicators from complex surveys: The R package laeken

Journal of Statistical Software

Volumn 54, Issue 15, 2013, Pages 1-25

  Alfons, Andreas ^a,b   Templ, Matthias ^c,d  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

^d Methods Unit   (Austria)

Author keywords

Indicators; R; Robust estimation; Sample weights; Survey methodology

Indexed keywords

EID: 84884265970     PISSN: 15487660     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18637/jss.v054.i15     Document Type: Article

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